A fresh look at the intent of the Second Amendment – Minnesota Public Radio News

What if the Second Amendment isnt really about guns at all?

Historian Carol Anderson believes the right to bear arms was designed to keep Black people enslaved and powerless. Her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, lays out the historical context for the Second Amendments passage. She builds the case that militias at the time of our countrys founding were primarily about protecting slavery, and that white supremacy is embedded into the bedrock of the right to bear arms.

Last week, host Kerri Miller talked about soaring gun sales and gun violence. This Monday, at 9 a.m., shell add to the conversation by talking with Anderson about the racial threads woven through gun rights in America.

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