The Second Amendment Didn’t Work

The crown argument for the 2nd amendment was that it protects America against tyranny.

Donald Trump and his lackeys are in the process of establishing an autocratic regime. Oh, but how can this be? Have we not been told that the 2nd amendment makes it impossible for America to have a tyranny?

I have always argued that the conservative American belief that the Second Amendment somehow protects their liberty is absurd. It never protected African Americans against slavery, segregation or any other forms of oppression. Nor did it protect Native Americans against genocide.

In fact, the Second Amendment has more been a way to allow the oppressor to engage in oppression. The Californian genocide of Native Americans in the 1860s and onwards was enabled by citizens carrying guns and thus able to murder at will.

When African Americans or Native American people ever tried to resist by using guns, settlers would use this as an excuse to call in the US army to settle what they would describe as a “riot.” The 1921 Tulsa race massacre is another good example. When black people tried to fight back against whites, it simply created a pretext for a calling in the US military. We have seen this during Hong Kong demonstrations. Authorities kept attempting to goad protesters…