Venting on 2A - How people don't realize America's bloody history of genocide and slavery created a nation awash in guns

For a while now, I've been scratching my head on 2A. The Second Amendment:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

I had passed a video where Abby Martin and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz talked. But peopleare truly left in the dark on this.

Based on RDO's recent book, I truly got upset all over again. The genocide of Native Americans wasn't enough, but to learn that America inherited a war culture where only 33% of the people hold all the guns is startling.

People truly forgot the roots of America in taking Indigenous lands along with suppressing slave revolts. Oddly, people think that they can protecttheir First Amendment rights with the 2nd.

That's plain b.s.

While the NSA sucks up data, while black people fight against armed police, and Indigenous activists fight against militarized police, who truly has the right to bear arms?

As RDO puts it, it's the settler colonial classes who bought into (what Gerald Horne describes as) militarized identity politics. The Irish lost their lands and would eventually scalp Native Americans.

Blacks were chattel slaves and bank accounts for the Founding Fathers. People may like George Washington but he and Trump actually have more in common than must realize. Who knew he was a land speculator who sold Indigenous lands he didn't own? Trump and his real estate (mis)fortune has a lot in common with his predecessors in how predatory it was.

But I digress.

The point of bringing out this history is that a lot of people can barely process these words.

How do you argue a history no one knows?

What I got was a lot of backlash but few could truly argue against it. I got asked for sources but people would rather attack my character (by claiming I'm stupid) or ignorance on the subject.

But look at what I linked up above and see if it makes sense:

The NRA was previously more about recreation and target shooting. The [far right] took over the NRA in 1977, and in the 1980s, under Reagan, you had a flowering of these different sovereign citizens groups. In the '90s, you have the rise of the militias. These are white nationalist groups.

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Militias had existed since the 17th century. In 1642, in Massachusetts, 12 years after settlement by Puritans, they issued an order that every man—this meant white men—had to carry a weapon everywhere in public. Virginia did the same thing about 20 years later, even more extremely: You had to have a gun inside church, in the fields.

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You have this parallel genealogy of the militias covered in the Second Amendment—to kill Indians to take their land, and slave patrols.

In essence, the truth of America is that it was the first successful apartheid state which has since helped every dictator and form of white nationalism/fascism it could.

The Second Amendment matters. Since it's a white right, a white supremacist right, it gets inscribed in the culture

This is but a small part of the brutal history of America.

What do you think America was built on?