Why is it that the Left always accuses the other side of doing what they are in fact doing, or in this case of having done what the Democrats in fact did. At FullMagNews is an article where the ACLU Claims that the 2A has Racist Roots.
The American Civil Liberties Union(ACLU) is now claiming that the 2nd Amendment has its roots in racism and was inserted into the Constitution as a way to protect slavery.
On a recent episode of the ACLU’s “At Liberty” podcast, historian Carol Anderson and professor Charles Howard who is a professor of African American Studies at Emory University claimed that “anti-blackness” played a role in the decision to include the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights.
According to Carol Anderson, the lack of gun safety laws in the United States can be directly attributed to “the power of anti-blackness.” This is the same “anti-blackness” that is enshrined in the constitution according to Anderson and Howard.Unfortunately, this "lawyer" is spouting absolutely ahistorical balderdash. If you read the writings of the founders on the Second Amendment there is no mention one way or the other about blacks or slaves. Indeed, the right predates the Constitution by hundreds of years. It was one of the Rights of Englishmen. Indeed, the notion that blacks were somehow "subhuman" came up after the Constitution was written and was a way for the Democrats to justify the keeping of blacks as slaves, in the face of abolitionist arguments to end the practice.
What the Second Amendment was about was the people having the ability to defend themselves against a tyrannous government. The Founders were not wild eyed revolutionaries. They fully understood that any government, no matter how the power was dispersed, could become tyrannical. Having just thrown of such a government, they wanted to provide that the government would fear the people. That the Second Amendment remains relevant is why the Left so despises it. It is why they make up preposterous lies to try to discredit it.
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