Thread by @wirelesshogan

My heart breaks at the news of another mass shooting by a white male on Saturday, August 31 in Odessa, Texas.

Since the last series of mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton just four weeks ago, I have devoted significant time to studying the Second Amendment.
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It is quite short. Just four phrases separated by commas.

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
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I have an analysis on the entire amendment that I will share at a later date, but for now I would like to highlight the third and fourth phrases.

"the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed"
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First, only 9 countries in the world have ever Constitutionally protected the right to bear arms and currently only three offer such protections, but the United States of America is the ONLY country that does not include a restrictive provision to this right.
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Second, this amendment was written around 1790, ratified just 4 years after the US Constitution. And in the Constitution, the founding fathers were quite clear exactly who they meant when they used the term "people" (i.e. white men).
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Just six days after the shooting in El Paso, another white male walked into a Wal-Mart in Springfield, Missouri wearing body armor and carrying a loaded rifle and a handgun. He stated he wanted to test his second amendment rights.
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And on Saturday Aug. 31, another white male opened fire, randomly shooting people, killing 5 and injuring more than 20, at shopping centers in Odessa and Midland, Texas after police officers attempted to pull him over for a traffic stop.
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The 2nd Amendment is deeply problematic, dripping w/ implicit racial bias & written to arm a specific demographic. And that demographic flaunts & abuses that right, to both the terror of our nation & the horror of the globe.

It's time we had an honest discussion about that.
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