in nationwide now he arguments made well you know i had all americans that guns
that while white americans anyway had guns and i was a fine thank
he added that again back to the service book by professor across the bow to
speak in history the second ah...
in reality few americans on the guns he writes
uh... they did uh... e the frontier areas of doing on western pennsylvania
near seventeen sixty-five his seventeen ninety
there was a they did a detailed search of the records of what people on what
they
left to their hair isn't things now with this one dot i think they've broken tea
cups
analyst a personal property
and what they found was that fourteen percent of the household and injuries
included firearms and fifty three percent of those guns weren't list is
not working
in addition feel americans hunted
balance sales writes quote from the time of the earliest colonial settlements
frontier families relied on indians are professional hunters for wild game
and the colonial semblance regulated all forms of aunty
so
ol it's not like this that this country was birth in everybody on any gun
it was fairly rare except
in the south
where at the white malaysia was used
to terrorize
afro-american slaves
patrick henry and george mason
where the leaders of the anti federalists movement patrick andrea give
me liberty or give me death famer
was a big supporter of slavery
ironically
and
he gave a speech
at the constitutional convention
in which he was very very concerned that article one section eight the powers
given the federal government could be used to subvert
the slave system
and that the way that this would happen and what he was what he was seen was
exactly by the way what abraham lincoln did
was that the federal government under the powers given an article one section
eight
if there was a war
they could call slaves out of the south into military service and freeze them
and does bring about the end of slavery missile
uh... here is his actual speech
he said
and and this is you know in the in the debate about whether or not
again virginia should
should sign up for the constitution
in this state there are two hundred and thirty six thousand blacks and there are
many in several other states but there are few or nine in the northern states
under its power to provide for the general defense congress might analyst
blacks into the army and then emancipated and slavery is detested in
the north
they will search that paper that being in the constitution
and see if they have the power of menu mission that is freeing the slaves
and have they not sir had they not power to provide for the general defense in
welfare
made a i think that these call for the abolition of slavery
may they not per ounce all slaves free and will they not be warranted by that
power
this is our ambiguous implication or logical deduction
the paper the constitution speaks to the point
they have the power
this it would be the federal government if we ratify the castration
they have the power and clear unequivocal terms and well clearly
uncertainly exercise it
he went on to say
i decided that jordy estates have not the ties of simply and fellow feeling
for those whose interests would be affected
now there is uh... most of the state student id you know they were all out
about the slavery in the south
uses the majority of congress as to the north and the slaves are to the south
end of quote from patrick battery
about why if they were and what he was saying is if they're if we're going to
ratify this constitution
we have to amend it
to say that the malicious in the south that ride the circuit that when the dead
when they get that
that they're basically like neighborhood watches
and there aren't
but their right to carry weapons will not be taken away
now james madison responded to patrick henry
twenty minutes after harry gave a speech james madison stood up and said i was
struck with surprise when i heard him express himself alarm with respect
the emancipation of slaves there is no power warranted in that paper in the
constitution
if they're being i know what not
and a quote from james madison
but that being the case madison had proposed
a second amendment
which said
but the people have a right to keep and bear arms that a well-regulated militia
composed of the body people trained arms is the proper natural on safety fence of
a free state
that standing armies in times of peace are dangerous to liberty and therefore
ought to be avoided as far as the circumstances and protection the
community will admit
and there are cases the military should be under strict subordination to
and governed by the civil power
that no standing army a regular troops should be razor kept up in time of peace
without the consent of two-thirds of the member present uh... both houses
bache state respectively shall have the power to provide for organizing arming
and dis
and disappointing it's own militia
at the malicious shall not be subject to martial law
except in time of war
penny he'd modified that to say the right of people to bear but again there
are some of the official well armed well-regulated militia being necessary
for the best security of a free country
this was the ultimate first draft of the second memo
but no personal religiously scrupulous a bearing arms should be compelled to
render military service
madison and change that in response to patrick henry
to change it from
being the best security of a free country
to the best defense of a free states
now why was he saying the best defense of a free state
because the state's in the south
defended themselves by you know again once that level of maine make this very
very clear
what the malaysia did in the south
seventeen fifty five seventeen fifty seven for example georgia carefully
divided militia districts into discrete patrol areas
it required patrols under the dome to the direction of commissioned malicious
tape alicia officers to examine every plantation each month and authorize them
to search
all negro houses for offensive weapons an affirmation
and apprehended twenty lashes to any slate found outside plantation grounds
the malaysia
were the ones who enforced slavery in the south
and to be found at that point to have slavery in a police state that a free
country oakley st
the second member was put into place
you're listening to become hardman program colleagues execs nineteen
seventy-eight your health
so dry run in that by your favorite gunner and by the way i think that we're
seeing the same thing it's uh... it's almost chicago crime like minds discuss
before