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Sunday Thoughts continued.

The first ten amendments to the US Constitution (the Bill of Rights) were amendments that the States demanded in exchange for their support for the ratification of the Constitution in the late 1780s. 1/6 Image
The Second Amendment was demanded by the rich slave owners of the southern states. These slave owners were terrified of slave uprisings and they wanted local militias at the ready to quell any uprisings. 2/6
But the very same rich slave owners were distrustful of poor whites, so the word “well regulated militias” were part of the Second Amendment to make sure that poor white people couldn’t just form their own militias. 3/6
In the late 1700s, “to be armed” meant bearing arms for the defense of the community. It didn’t mean owning guns which, at the time, for the common man or woman were single shot hunting rifles. Pistols were weapons of the rich& were usually too expensive for the common public 4/6
Owning a hunting rifle in the late 1700s was Not considered “bearing arms”! Again, at the time, “bearing arms” meant being part of a military group to help defend the community. Today, the Supreme Court Justices who claim to believe in “Originalism” are just kidding us all 5/6
when they say that “the right to bear arms” means “you can own assault weapons” without being in a well regulated militia! They don’t care about the original intent of the Constitution when it suits their right wing political agenda. 6/6

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