Posted on 03/05/2013 9:32:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With just 27 words in 1791, America's Second Amendment paved a blood-drenched trail for legal access to modern-day weapons used in videogame-like fashion to gun-down fellow citizens, military style.
Now, after all the mass carnage of 222 years of "Freedom to Bear Arms" – with a murder-count so high that only God can accurately tally – there's a sudden political epiphany for urgent "gun control" to ostensibly curb the curse of innocent slayings.
Given however an estimated 300 million legal guns, compounded by ever-rising volumes of illegal guns that already saturate society uncontrollably, the notion of "gun control" equates somewhat to "closing the barn door after the horse is gone."
All of the adverse consequences and uncivilized behavior associated with this so-called "freedom," begs the question – What was the original function and intent of arming citizens that made the constitutional framers appear so wise in the first place?
Conventional logic suggests that early-Americans obviously needed guns to hunt and protect themselves in the wilds. Also, as a newly formed republic, arms were presumed necessary to defend the preciousness of America's democracy from possible tyranny. Although such reasoning seems practical and plausible, there is an unpopular but overriding truth about "bearing arms" that's deeply affixed to defending another of America's preciousness – institutionalized slavery.
Bluntly put, the Second Amendment traces to a historical period when bullets and bibles were necessary to forcibly control and psychologically manipulate huge swaths of enslaved populations that eventually exceeded four million, which the same constitution openly repudiates the humanity thereof as further proof.
Contrary to "defending freedom," the looming threats of uprisings due to "denying freedom" to Africans and Native Americans, posed America's greatest domestic security concern at that time....
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The truth is gun control began as a way to keep blacks down.
The Never Again Campaign Youtube 0:30
Equal Gun Rights Youtube 0:52
It still is.
The vast majority of folks are not going to defend them selves against the police regardless of how well they are armed, on average the black people may be more willing to do so but that is just a guess.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
How much help would they have gotten from the people who owned slaves?
They would have lost the war, period.
That's where gun control is now. My post was about where it began. Actually I think gun control now is about nationwide and worldwide subjugation not mere policing control of neighborhoods.
That’s where gun control is now. My post was about where it began. Actually I think gun control now is about nationwide and worldwide subjugation not mere policing control of neighborhoods.
At the same time i believe that was just an excuse for the pro gun control agenda, every thing the socialists do has always made sense to people who puts security ahead of every thing else.
I don’t think there was much socialist thought in this country in the 1870s.
I don’t think there was much socialist thought in this country in the 1870s.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
Franklin said those things in spite of the fact that he also had socialist views on some things, for instance, government funded hospitals, free of charge health care.
True but that’s irrelevant to the genesis of gun control. It is very well established that the first gun control laws were made specifically to keep freed slaves from owning guns so they couldn’t fight back against the KKK.
“Ezrah Aharone “
Ezrah! You’re full of crap! The left has black America fully controlled and enslaved now, and they’re doing it without guns!
Idiots are dangerous.
True but that’s irrelevant to the genesis of gun control. It is very well established that the first gun control laws were made specifically to keep freed slaves from owning guns so they couldn’t fight back against the KKK.
I lived in Arizona from 70 to 82 and any one could walk down the street with a gun on their hip.
Well, it wasn’t Arizona but I have trouble believing you were around in 1870 to 1882, old timer.
This whole demonization of groups of people is Marxist. To divide so they can destroy us. We are all Americans-—we need to unite-—not divide
Well, it wasn’t Arizona but I have trouble believing you were around in 1870 to 1882, old timer.
The kkk who were also democrats who fought tooth and nail to keep the blacks in slavery would do any thing to keep the blacks from being able to protect them selves, now they are trying to make slaves in the form of peons out of every one, and this is much bigger than the kkk.
So instead of trying to make this gun control thing a racist issue why can,t you see what it really is? why are,nt you willing to fight for my freedom the way my ancestors fought and died for your freedom.
It is really hard for me to believe that a half million people died in vain to free a people who do not want to be free.
The videos I posted, made by black Americans, explain very well how current Dem gun control policy is still aimed at blacks and other minorities. Nowhere did I say that was the only reason for gun control.
Dem gun control policy is still aimed at blacks and other minorities. Nowhere did I say that was the only reason for gun control.
Also i do not at all agree with the title of the orginal thread.
What part of “Nowhere did I say that was the only reason for gun control” do you not get? In all of these posts you have yet to make any point. See ya.
Yeah, same to ya.
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