With just 27 words in 1791, America's Second Amendment[1] paved a blood-drenched trail for legal access to modern-day weapons used in videogame-like fashion to gun-down fellow citizens, military style.Now, after all the mass carnage of 222 years of "Freedom to Bear Arms" – with a murder-count so high that only God can accurately tally – there's a sudden political epiphany for urgent "gun control" to ostensibly curb the curse of innocent slayings. Given however an estimated 300 million legal guns, compounded by ever-rising volumes of illegal guns that already saturate society uncontrollably, the notion of "gun control" equates somewhat to "closing the barn door after the horse is gone."All of the adverse consequences and uncivilized behavior associated with this so-called "freedom," begs the question – What was the original function and intent of arming citizens that made the constitutional framers appear so wise in the first place?Conventional logic suggests that early-Americans obviously needed guns to hunt and protect themselves in the wilds. Also, as a newly formed republic, arms were presumed necessary to defend the preciousness of America's democracy from possible tyranny. Although such reasoning seems practical and plausible, there is an unpopular but overriding truth about "bearing arms" that's deeply affixed to defending another of America's preciousness – institutionalized slavery.Bluntly put, the Second Amendment traces to a historical period when bullets and bibles were necessary to forcibly control and psychologically manipulate huge swaths of enslaved populations that eventually exceeded four million, which the same constitution openly repudiates the humanity thereof as further proof. Contrary to "defending freedom," the looming threats of uprisings due to "denying freedom" to Africans and Native Americans, posed America's greatest domestic security concern at that time.Simply put, without guns and a well-armed White society, the scale of chattel slavery would have been plainly improbable. And

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