(08-11-2020, 09:35 PM)Black Aeronaut Wrote:(08-10-2020, 07:00 AM)nemonowan Wrote:(08-09-2020, 05:27 PM)Dartz Wrote: I don't know why the 2nd amendment came to be such a hill to die on - when, so many other freedoms are being shat on daily.
Probably because one of the reasons behind that amendment was to guarantee that the southern states could keep their armed slave patrols that they needed to keep their black slaves from revolting.
This streak of racism behind this amendment has never disappeared. It is not coincidence that most of the gun control laws that have managed to get passed were targeted to preventing black people from owning or carrying guns.
Your going to have to be a little more clear about that.
Are you claiming that the reason that the 2nd Amendment exists is for slave owners to maintain power over slaves? Or are you saying that White Southerners perverted the intent of the 2nd Amendment to "keep Blacks in their place"?
To my knowledge, the Founding Fathers added the 2nd Amendment because they wanted that there as a fail-safe in case The Great Experiment failed - so that The People could have some means of securing their freedom should things come to the worst case scenario.
"Founding Fathers" were nowhere near a monolythic bloc, there were as many opinions and points of view as people present in the discussions, and the tortured grammar of the final amendment is proof enough of that.
As I said, ONE of the reasons southern representatives wanted a right in this regard was the need to keep any potential slave rebellion down.
That's why I stated that it began with a racist streak, and it didn't get any better since. Most restrictions of the right to own or carry guns were either targeted or enforced more harshly on black people.You just have to look up the many examples of how differently a white man open carrying an assault rifle is treated than a black man doing the same thing in the same place.