(December 6, 2015 at 1:11 am)KUSA Wrote:(December 6, 2015 at 12:10 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: The original purpose of the Second Amendment was to give the slave owners a legal means of putting down slave rebellions on their plantations.
Citation please.
According to this now dead white historian the purpose of the Second Amendment was to arm the free white guys so that they could form groups to kill unruly slaves and Indians whenever needed. http://articles.philly.com/2013-07-11/ne...roft-prize
http://www.blackagendareport.com/content...-bear-arms
According to the article:
"Historically then, the principal activities of the Founding Fathers' “well regulated militia” were Indian killing, land stealing, slave patrolling and the enforcement of domestic apartheid, all of these, as the Constitutional language declares “being necessary to the security of a free state.” A free state whose fundamental building blocks were the genocide of Native Americans, and the enslavement of Africans.
The Constitutional sanction of universally armed white men against blacks and Indians is at the origin of what has come to be known as America's “gun culture,” and it neatly explains why that culture remains most deeply rooted in white, rural and small-town America long after the end of slavery and the close of the frontier. With the genocide of Native Americans accomplished and slavery gone, America's gun culture wrapped itself in new clothing, in self-justifying mythology that construes the Second Amendment as arming the citizenry as final bulwark of freedom against tyranny, invasion or crime. Embracing this fake history of the Second Amendments warps legal scholarship and public debate in clouds of willful ignorance, encouraging us to believe this is a nation founded on just and egalitarian principles rather than one built with stolen labor on stolen land."
A lot of police departments, like NYC and Chicago, see themselves as modern versions of the old slave patrols running down escaped slaves. Some departments are worse than others but they are all generally of the same mind-set.
