Thom Hartmann makes the case here for a historically factual and desperately sad part of the Constitution. He puts together the history that we all know about and comes to the inescapable conclusion that the 2nd Amendment was a sop to the Southern slave states. With that protection, they could run slave-catching patrols.
The Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery
The 2nd Amendment was not ratified to protect ourselves against foreign enemies, but rather the enemies we created when we kidnapped and enslaved fellow human beings.
The 2nd Amendment was not ratified so that citizens could protect themselves from the government, as those defenders of this heinous amendment claim. Actually, this is laughable. The USA has the largest and most lethal military on the planet. Who thinks they can escape capture with the guns available right now?
The 2nd Amendment was not ratified so people could hunt their own food. See above.
The 2nd Amendment was not ratified so that America could avoid creating a standing army. The USA has the largest and most lethal military on the planet WITH the 2nd Amendment in place.
The wide range of Founding-era laws suggests that the Founders understood gun rights quite differently from many people today. The right to keep and bear arms was not a libertarian license for anyone to have any kind of ordinary firearm, anywhere they wanted. Nor did the Second Amendment protect a right to revolt against a tyrannical government. The Second Amendment was about ensuring public safety, and nothing in its language was thought to prevent what would be seen today as quite burdensome forms of regulation. constitutioncenter.org/...
It is desperately important that this plague of massacres be controlled NOW. It is unconscionable that the right sits around smirking behind a racist amendment that kills little children.