"The Second Amendment Is Not Intended for Black People"

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Noah makes the argument that "the Second Amendment is not intended for Black people.
56% : I just want to be super clear that you're not saying the Second Amendment is broken, that it was conceived to do a thing that it doesn't do.
55% : I wonder if you can walk us through what that deal was and why the question of what they were going to do about slavery baked into the very framing of the Second Amendment?
53% : Journalists began asking, "Well, don't African Americans have Second Amendment rights?"
52% : : You've got 25 of the 55 delegates who are slave owners, including George Washington, and the Second Amendment is a grand bargain.
51% : " I think the argument is saying that the Second Amendment is in fact working exactly the way it was intended to work with respect to Black folks, and that is as a tool of persistence, subordination, and destruction.
50% : Going right back to the Colonial era, how much were guns and gun ownership really at the heart of the plantation owners who were attempting to keep control over situations in which they were simply outnumbered?
49% : I want to talk for a minute about what you describe as a three-part move for subjugating slaves from Colonial time on into the framing of the Second Amendment and the way we talk about Second Amendment rights.
48% : You're saying the Second Amendment does precisely the thing it was crafted to do.
47% : The National Rifle Association, that protector of the Second Amendment, goes virtually silent.
45% : At the point of the birth of the Second Amendment, already it was absolutely clear that guns were in some sense as essential to continuing slaveholding way of life as were the crops themselves.

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