The Second Amendment Is Not Racist

 I had a post last Wednesday entitled For The Left, Every Day Is Opposite Day, in which I pointed out that contrary to certain claims, the Second Amendment is not a racist document, nor was it written to keep blacks in slavery. Today, at the American Thinker, Tony L. Vets II has a longer article that puts the lie to the notion that the Second Amendment is racist at The Second Amendment: Not Racist, But Definitely Pro-Freedom. If you read nothing else today, read this. Vets brings up the points I did, and then some.

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.

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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. The English simply were not in the least bit concerned about the potential for slave revolts and "anti-Blackness" in America when they drafted their Bill of Rights in 1688.

I did not know about the Irish connection, but it is interesting history. No doubt Ms. Anderson thinks the "Irish connection" was to the "black Irish." Look, anybody who wraps up his or her identity in things like race and sexual preferences are on the wrong path. Such things can only lead to unhappiness. And trying to lie about history, a history that is easily verified, betrays a person so imprisoned in her identity as a black woman instead of freeing herself to simply be a woman period.  but note that women are one of the fastest growing demographics buying guns.  Why?  For the same reason others have bought guns:  protection from those who would take their lives.