Here’s the answer: because the colonists eschewed having a standing army, so having a ready militia was seen as vital to the national defense. But as the need for a private militia faded, so does the need to have a privately armed citizenry - which is not the same as “confiscating all guns”, even though 2nd A advocates position it so in their false arguments.

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Several historians have noted that another lurking motivation at the time of the writing of the Constitution for ensuring the rights of states to operate standing militias and maintain local stocks of weapons and ammunition was (drum roll, wait for it...) to ensure states and local communities had the means to put down feared rebellions of slaves.

So is America a racist country? It's impossible to say with a straight face that the country no longer has a racist bone in our body. Two of the most vexing problems we face -- gun violence/death from a perverted interpretation of the Second Amendment and grossly undemocratic election results and representation stemming from the structure of the Senate and the Electoral College - are DIRECTLY tied to our "original sin" of allowing slavery to exist and expanding it for seventy years before finally eliminating it.


WTH