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[UNLOCKED] American Carnage: Mass Shootings, Gun Policy, & Root Causes

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The Second Amendment and the Roll of Guns in the Hands of Civilians

The second amendment and the right to have an armed populace has not historically been interpreted as everyone in the us. Has the right to be armed in that way, right? We know that at the founding of these countries, the implementation of these supposed constitutional rights was for white men in particular. There also the history of using uns in the hands of slave owning civilians in order to keep black populations under control in the united states. And you know, during that filando castile murder, the n r a really revealed itself in that moment, as in so many others. But it was a nice flash point to see they really fucking are. Cause they pretend to be small government for the individual liberty

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