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I love how everyone sees the right to bear arms as so fundamentally American. The Second Amendment is completely anachronistic; it was created to preserve militias. Sure, you could argue that America was born because random dudes with guns saved our freedoms, but since then gun ownership has become the single most distorted "basic American freedom" out of the bunch.
Long story short: After the Civil War ended in 1865 white men needed a new way to oppress the freed black population of the South. The NRA was founded in 1871. Like so many other things that are "fundamentally American," gun ownership is also fundamentally racist.
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