The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Author Attacks Individual Gun Rights By Claiming the Second Amendment Is Rooted In Racism

Civil-rights leaders of the 19th and early 20th centuries also lamented that the right to self-defense was denied them. Fredrick Douglass reacted to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 by editorializing that the best remedy would…

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