Posted on 07/31/2021 3:04:09 AM PDT by Kaslin
Much has been said about racism and the Second Amendment since Carol Anderson published her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America. Unfortunately, much of what has been said is false. Commentators including CNN, NPR, Democracy Now!, and the ACLU, just to name a few, have all interviewed Ms. Anderson and hyped her theory that the Second Amendment has its roots in racism, "anti-Blackness", and oppression. Few journalists seem to be approaching the "racist Second Amendment" narrative with a healthy dose of philosophic doubt, nor do they seem interested in questioning the accuracy and validity of Ms. Anderson's assertion, with the result being that the truth is being suppressed in favor of the narrative du jour.
Fortunately, it does not take much research to arrive at the truth behind the roots of the Second Amendment: that the Founding Fathers distrusted large standing armies and therefore proposed the Second Amendment to provide for a militia capable of fending off invasions while the federal government mustered an army capable of dealing with the threat.
Much has already been said about the Second Amendment's roots being found in the English Bill of Rights of 1688, and so it is not necessary to recap that fact now. Instead, I refer the reader to Andrea Widburg's post, "The Second Amendment Isn't Racist," in American Thinker (June 4, 2021) and William E. Devlin's article "The Second Amendment's Irish Link" in The Irish Story (September 29, 2018). With an established legal tradition protecting the right of the people to keep and bear arms coming from England in 1688, it is difficult to argue that the roots of the Second Amendment are racist or meant to deal with potential slave revolts.
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AMEN to that!
Ms. Anderson hyped her theory that the Second Amendment has its roots in racism...
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Let me see some guys took their guns to the south to free slaves and CNN, NPR, Democracy Now!, and the ACLU think it’s slavery.
When brain cells die so does logic the key to Marxism.
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