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America’s gun obsession is rooted in slavery
The Guardian ^ | 4 June 2021 | Carol Anderson

Posted on 06/07/2021 5:50:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower

Bodies are piling up all over the second amendment as two of America’s pandemics converge. The “plague of gun violence” and the inability to mount an effective response, even in the wake of multiple mass shootings, is, unfortunately, rooted in the other pandemic gripping the United States: anti-Blackness and the sense that African Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed white citizenry.

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But “a well-regulated militia” wasn’t, as the story goes, about how valiant and effective the militias were in repelling the British. George Washington was disgusted with their lack of fighting ability and the way the men would just cut and run from battling against a professional army.


If I was called upon to declare upon Oath, whether the Militia have been most serviceable or hurtful upon the whole; I should subscribe to the latter. – George Washington, September 1776

1 posted on 06/07/2021 5:50:11 AM PDT by artichokegrower
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No it’s not.


2 posted on 06/07/2021 5:51:06 AM PDT by KC_Lion
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It has to be either that or climate change. There is nothing else it could be.


3 posted on 06/07/2021 5:51:56 AM PDT by pas
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Do these idiots really believe the drivel they write on race or is purely propaganda for them?


4 posted on 06/07/2021 5:53:36 AM PDT by rb22982 ( )
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To: artichokegrower

Marxism and Progressive ideals are the problems that need to be stopped in its tracks! The gun violence argument is a lie and just about everyone knows it-—Yet these tyrants keep pushing it the way Hitler, Mao, Goebbels, Stalin, Pol Pot and other did.
I’m really tired of the lying scumbag propagandists.


5 posted on 06/07/2021 5:53:41 AM PDT by mikelets456
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To: artichokegrower

There’s no end to what someone can claim, when you can point to anything, or the general lack of anything, in the past.


6 posted on 06/07/2021 5:53:52 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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The minute that British troops arrived in mass, and confiscated weapons in townships...we were pretty set to having a well-regulated militia.


7 posted on 06/07/2021 5:55:03 AM PDT by pepsionice
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No, but most of the murders in America are rooted in slavery.


8 posted on 06/07/2021 5:55:16 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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Sure it is. Everything concerning the founding of the USA is based upon racism and slavery. Haven’t you been CRT certified yet?


9 posted on 06/07/2021 5:55:39 AM PDT by LIConFem (Don't drain the swamp. Just fill it with hungry gators. )
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anti-Blacknesscommunist and the sense that AfricanCommunist Anti-Americans are a dangerous threat that can only be neutralized or stopped by a well-armed whiteconservative citizenry.

This, not the previous.

10 posted on 06/07/2021 5:55:45 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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You know what? Who gives a crap? You can stick slavery up your arse.

It is nothing but a weapon


11 posted on 06/07/2021 5:56:01 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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Well.. that’s a new one!!

Gun ownership was to keep the bad dudes away from home turf.

Today the same.. but add freedoms to the mix.


12 posted on 06/07/2021 5:56:28 AM PDT by frnewsjunkie
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I did a double-take this morning listening to the ABC Radio lead-off. The announcer intoned quite seriously: “The pandemic is ending, and once again Americans are shooting each other”.


13 posted on 06/07/2021 5:57:34 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
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Haven’t you been CRT certified yet?

I got rid of my last CRT early in 2020; all three televisions in my home are flat-screen now. (FYI, it's 9 AM and they're all turned off, which is their best-case condition.)

15 posted on 06/07/2021 5:58:13 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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Yeah...I am shocked that an unorganized, racist “militia” was ineffective against a professional army...what an idiot!


16 posted on 06/07/2021 5:58:25 AM PDT by gr8eman (The "R" next to Snake Plisken's name stands for "Retired")
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Gun confiscation and gun rules are based on democrats racist past.


17 posted on 06/07/2021 5:58:49 AM PDT by I got the rope
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Somebody better point that out to the Black Panthers...


18 posted on 06/07/2021 6:00:03 AM PDT by Skywise
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The Guardian’s viewpoint is rooted in being serfs and subjects to feeble-minded kings. They just can’t understand anything but a subservient mind, which is why we kicked their kind out, starting in 1776.

And George III, though mentally disturbed, was much more competent than Prince Charles. Long live the Queen!


19 posted on 06/07/2021 6:00:52 AM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them wthaith a pitchfork!)
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To: artichokegrower

This is a argument that’s become quite fashionable among firearms prohibitionists: alleging that the Second Amendment (along with other aspects of US constitutional heritage) is racist in origin.

Why is then that Jefferson (”No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms”) requested his slaves be freed upon his death and that he provided for them to learn trades as to find jobs upon their freedom? And that Washington also wished his slaves freed upon his death.

Also to ask Ms. Anderson, why is that it would take criminals in the United States and Canada many hundreds of centuries to equal the number murdered by four governments in Nazi Germany (Hitler), Soviet Russia (Stalin), China (Mao Zedong), and Cambodia (Pol Pot) in just one?


20 posted on 06/07/2021 6:01:18 AM PDT by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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