The Second Amendment has a hidden origin story
Malcolm Gladwell argues that almost everything most people believe about the Second Amendment is wrong. Guns weren’t widely owned in 18th-century America. The militias didn’t win the Revolutionary War. And the amendment that guaranteed their survival was written to protect one thing in particular: the armed slave patrols that Southern plantation owners depended on. In conversation with Jonny…
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