House passes bill to expand background checks for gun sales

[JasonBlack]

(06-02-2022, 11:35 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(06-02-2022, 07:27 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(06-02-2022, 05:34 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Israel example is an interesting one. Yes, it seems a people engaged in actively occupying and oppressing another people needs to have a large army. Come to think of it, that's why we in the USA have the second amendment too; to keep the slaves in line; that's why it was added to the constitution! And it and our large army too still works for that purpose.

literally the opposite. the KKK pushed for the first gun control laws.

That does not change the fact that the second amendment was added to give slaveholders the ability to keep their slaves.

What are you basing this off of?

Quote:Fortunately African Americans made much more progress by adopting people power in the sixties, and this has continued. Their adoption by some of them of guns in the sixties did not work out so well. But at that same time, the various backlashes to progress began, and the gun rights movement, which had not yet existed, was a big part of that and still is. It's all of a piece. Gun rights, cries against critical race theory, laws against teaching about gays, promotion and full approval of domestic terror, the attacks on democracy and voting rights, full permission, approval and propagation of mass killings, attacks on women's rights.....

Well, as of recently, black people seem to be quite bullish on owning guns, and in my experience at least, this is far from an unusual. After all, it only makes sense. What are they going to do? Rely on the police to protect them? We all know how poor their track record is even when we're not talking about the violent white supremacists who have infiltrated various police departments in the last few decades.  
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021...cans-surge

Quote:it seems a people engaged in actively occupying and oppressing another people needs to have a large army

Going back to this, yes....and the flip side is that people engaged in occupying and oppressing also want their victims to have less of an army and less weapons. Even Marxists are aware of this. Karl Marx was one of the biggest proponents of gun ownership of his time. Again, there is a reason America has never had a dictator.