Gun ownership is racist

[Igel]

21. You can keep saying it.

But it's still not the case.

When the BOR was up for grabs, there was a very real issue taking place. They'd just fought a war and the militia was very real and very armed. Nobody lined up in DC when the treaty was signed with Britain for the DOD to collect all those firearms. And this made sure it wouldn't happen. The militia was not the slave patrols, and the militia was very much a living, viable entity at the time. So there was no confusion in the minds of anybody at the time with slave patrols.

All that this did was make sure the federal government didn't limit the states' militias. The states could. However, when the rights in the Constitution devolved to the individual states after the Civil War, this, too, trickled down. States couldn't have an state religion; and suddenly the Constitution limitations imposed on the federal government applied to the states, too.

No, slaves at the time weren't allowed to own firearms. Neither were they really accorded freedom of assembly, the right to petition the government, or freedom of speech.