There are historical differences between the way, say, like the french approach the parts of north america ould later become french canada. Right? A puritan settler have a right, and even an obligation, stipulated under corporate contract, to be armed in North America. The first english precedent, he british precedent, for a right to bear arms in north American is not in the constitution or its amendments,. but in the corporate guide lines of the massachusetts bay company. But still through line relationships to the idea of individuals being able to bear arms or deploy weapons as a participation in enterprises that we could call corporate.
Patrick Blanchfield analyzes the long history of US gun violence and the American death drive.
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