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Title: The 1619 Distortion of the Second Amendment
Post by: Elderberry on June 03, 2020, 02:18:18 pm

National Review by David Harsanyi June 2, 2020

Even a cursory examination of American history shows that gun rights are not racist.

Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nikole Hannah-Jones had some thoughts on the Second Amendment yesterday:

It’s not really a “head scratcher” to comprehend why Americans want to protect their property and lives from looters and the mob. Why a reporter can breezily fabricate history under the banner of one of the nation’s most-widely read newspapers, on the other hand, definitely qualifies.

There’s no historical evidence to suggest that the Second Amendment was “created to ensure Southern slaveowners the right to maintain & arm slave patrols to put down insurrections amongst the enslaved,” even if southerners subsequently used guns for their nefarious purposes. As Charles Cooke has noted, “That neo-Nazis are protected by the First Amendment does not indict the First Amendment, just as that criminals are protected by the Fifth does not call that bulwark into general question.”

The right to self-defense, in fact, is incompatible with the idea of slavery — it runs counter to the arguments made by the Founders, even if some of them were hypocrites; counter to the arguments made by many abolitionists and the early civil-rights leaders; and counter to the arguments made by Second Amendment advocates today.

The animating ideas of the Second Amendment — both as personal and communal protection — are predicated on natural rights and English common law. And while nearly every intellectual, political, and military leader of the Founding generation stressed the importance of the right to bear arms as a means of preserving liberty, some of its most vociferous champions were against slavery.

More: https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-1619-distortion-of-the-second-amendment/ (https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/06/the-1619-distortion-of-the-second-amendment/)

Title: Re: The 1619 Distortion of the Second Amendment
Post by: txradioguy on June 09, 2020, 05:07:23 pm

This 2nd Amendment myth...like the rest of the 1619 Project is one of the biggest frauds ever put forth on the American people.