2nd amendment and slavery

**Justaguy** · 04-27-2012, 01:03 PM

The principal purpose of the 2^nd amendment was to preserve the slave system that existed in the late 1700’s. While Professor Lepore (“Battleground America” New Yorker April 23, 2012) gives an excellent summary of the interpretive evolution of the 2^nd Amendment, she neglects to speak to its origin. The 2^nd Amendment was the price that had to be paid to secure ratification of the Constitution. (See “The Hidden History of the Second Amendment” by Carl T. Bogus.)
The slave states relied on their militias to control their slaves and to suppress rebellion. The militia was required because the slave population in the slave states was such a large proportion of the total population. For example, as per the 1790 census, in Virginia slaves were 39 % of the total population, in South Carolina 43%, in Maryland 32%. (The brutal methods of the state militias, murder, fire, terror were adopted by the Ku Klux Klan.)

http://gunvictimsaction.org/blog/201...nable-slavery/

can you smell the desperation?

**Wolf Counsel** · 04-27-2012, 02:02 PM

Oh, hell! That does it. I'm going to dispose of all my weapons, because I don't want to have the stigma of racism in my soul.

Devil:

, Wolfie!

Wolf Counsel: Go chew a prune!

**BUCKEYEPETE** · 04-27-2012, 03:10 PM

Not me, Wolfie. If that was truly the original intent of the 2A, then it failed miserably. Look at what we have today.

I'm still stocking ammo, because it looks lately that we may have to restore this so-called "original intent" of the 2A.

You know, "Domestic Enemies", both racial and political.

Bring it on!

**Wolf Counsel** · 04-27-2012, 03:23 PM

I was just poking at the liberal revisionists. Keep your weapons and ammo clean and functioning, and aim straight, is my input.

**BUCKEYEPETE** · 04-27-2012, 03:43 PM

I know Wolfie, that you would never give up your guns, and you were just being a smart assed racist.

Bravo for you. Facetious is my middle name, and the 2A is my reason for living in this slimy country.

**Lazarus** · 05-01-2012, 09:46 AM

Aren't these the same people who are teaching in grammer schools that the Blacks built the Pyramids and were capable of flying without the use of flying apparatus?