Experts Debate Second Amendment’s Effects on Equality, Inequality in the United States
The right to bear arms is a right many people hold close. Yet, others see it as dangerous, particularly as the epidemic of mass shootings and gun violence only seem to get worse with every passing year. Listen: Carol Anderson and Randy Barnett debate how the Second Amendment relates to Black Americans. Her latest book is “The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.”Anderson says when she looks at the Second Amendment, she focuses on how the fear of an uprising of enslaved people drove the creation of the amendment. “If there was trust, if there was not an anti-gun ideology in this country, people might be more accepting of a registry,” he says.
wdet.orgBlack Americans Have Always Been Excluded from Second Amendment, Says Author Carol Anderson
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states that Americans and well-regulated militias have the right to keep and bear arms without infringement. We need to treat the Second Amendment the same way we treat the Three-Fifths Clause. Carol Anderson, Emory University“The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America” is a new book from Dr. Carol Anderson exploring the history of the Second Amendment in the context of the Black community. Listen: Carol Anderson on the racist origins of the Second Amendment. We need to treat the Second Amendment the same way we treat the Three-Fifths Clause.
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