The NRA is Ignorant of American History: The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery

(Patrick) Henry then bluntly laid it out:

    "If the country be invaded, a state may go to war, but cannot suppress [slave] insurrections [under this new Constitution]. If there should happen an insurrection of slaves, the country cannot be said to be invaded. They cannot, therefore, suppress it without the interposition of Congress . . . . Congress, and Congress only [under this new Constitution], can call forth the militia."

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