Second Amendment Scoreboard

[Uncle Joe]

47. Yes the South would've had personal weapons regardless because it was largely rural, agrarian

but if there hadn't been a 2nd Amendment, logic dictates there would've been fewer weapons.

The Second Amendment was an ingrained part of the culture.

The South knew the North had a superior population and held the most armaments yet they left risking war regardless because the oligarch plantation owners in the South feared the power of the 1st Amendment even more as it posed the greatest danger to their ability to "justify" holding slaves on any moral grounds.

Slavery was very profitable to the big slave owners long after the importation of slavery was outlawed, the invention of the Cotton Gin virtually assured it.

Indeed the 1st Amendment was instrumental in bringing about the outlawing of slave importation and the rise of the abolitionalists.

If the slaveowners hadn't feared the 1st Amendment, teaching slaves to read and write wouldn't have been against the law but they knew eloquent slaves and reason would more so humanize them versus making them easy demonization targets.

Slaveowners above all else feared reason and its' accompanying compassion from taking hold, empathy was their enemy.