On 5/30/2021 7:15 AM, Lawrence Crowell wrote:
This is manifested in denial arguments seen around the world. The second Amendment was drafted in order to allow militias to put down slave rebellions.
I think that's nonsense. The U.S. had just been formed by taking up arms, without an army, to revolt against the British Empire. They didn't want the expense and difficulty of maintaining a standing army. So it is perfectly rational, slaves or not, that they would have written the 2nd Amendment as a personal freedom and as an alternative to a national army. Without it there would still have been no obstacle to putting down slave rebellions. It did nothing to enhance states and local governments power to do so. And note that the two times that national militias were actually formed to put down rebellions, The Whisky Rebellion and Shays Rebellion, they had nothing to do with slavery.
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