[linMcHlp]

“Second Amendment was added to our Bill of Rights to appease slaveowners”

Says a left-wing teacher in Florida:

https://twitter.com/BrandtRobinson

https://twitter.com/BrandtRobinson/status/1649333914425540610

[marktwain]

They just make stuff up.

[marktwain]

The key made up part is his insertion of the claim the Second Amendment was inserted "to appease" slave owners.

The Second Amendment was wildly popular.

No one was being "appeased". The colonies had just gone though a revolutionary war where the King had repeatedly attempted to disarm the people.

The other part is context. Slavery was endemic in the world, and had been for thousands of years. The founders were exceptional in they recognized the natural rights of man and put into the Constitution the seeds of the destruction of slavery.