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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
Tue Jul 24, 2018, 08:59 PM Jul 2018

The right to bear arms disarmed

From the article:

PUBLISHED THIS past January, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment was definitely timely.
It came out soon after the Las Vegas massacre that killed 59 concertgoers, and which Dunbar-Ortiz discusses in her chapter on mass shootings. And it arrived on bookstore shelves just weeks before the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.....

nstead of dismissing the Second Amendment as antiquated and irrelevant, or as not actually meaning what it says, I argue that the purpose of the Second Amendment is key to understanding the gun culture of the United States, and possibly the key to a new consciousness about the lingering effects of settler-colonialism and white nationalism.....

She notes that at the time of what she terms her “gun love,” approximately half of U.S. households had a gun, for a total of 112 million guns nationwide. Contrast that to today, when only about one-third of households own a gun, but that number of guns has risen to 300 million.


To read more:

https://socialistworker.org/2018/07/24/the-right-to-bear-arms-disarmed
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The right to bear arms disarmed (Original Post) guillaumeb Jul 2018 OP
Message auto-removed Name removed Aug 2018 #1
And another NRA Trumpster billh58 Aug 2018 #2
No, they rarely do learn. guillaumeb Aug 2018 #3

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guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
3. No, they rarely do learn.
Tue Aug 7, 2018, 07:25 PM
Aug 2018

Perhaps the classes in St. Petersburg need to emphasize being more careful on this site.

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