Author Topic: The 2nd Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery?  (Read 243 times)

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The 2nd Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery?
« on: July 11, 2016, 08:40:13 AM »
I found this article interesting. I'm not an American so your laws are for your country to decide. Is this history of the 2nd amendment accurate?

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery/


"In the beginning, there were the militias. In the South, they were also called the “slave patrols,” and they were regulated by the states.

In Georgia, for example, a generation before the American Revolution, laws were passed in 1755 and 1757 that required all plantation owners or their male white employees to be members of the Georgia Militia, and for those armed militia members to make monthly inspections of the quarters of all slaves in the state.  The law defined which counties had which armed militias and even required armed militia members to keep a keen eye out for slaves who may be planning uprisings."

"...In the beginning, there were the militias. In the South, they were also called the “slave patrols,” and they were regulated by the states.

In Georgia, for example, a generation before the American Revolution, laws were passed in 1755 and 1757 that required all plantation owners or their male white employees to be members of the Georgia Militia, and for those armed militia members to make monthly inspections of the quarters of all slaves in the state.  The law defined which counties had which armed militias and even required armed militia members to keep a keen eye out for slaves who may be planning uprisings."


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Re: The 2nd Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery?
« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2016, 09:46:03 AM »
Some will want to believe that, but I don't.

It was following a war for Independence. The person who wrote the paper was in love with a black woman.

While it sounds nice on a narrative to hate America, I don't buy it.

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Re: The 2nd Amendment Was Ratified to Preserve Slavery?
« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2016, 11:51:30 AM »
Total Bull Shit Lies, Made Up By The Anti-Gun Terrorists.