US Politics on Yik Yak | What if American colonists had defeated the hated redcoats using sifilis instead of muskets? Would we of still gotten the second amendment?

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What if American colonists had defeated the hated redcoats using sifilis instead of muskets? Would we of still gotten the second amendment?

Anonymous 22h

*Syphilis

Anonymous 9h

The reason we have the right to bear arms is actually intended to prevent the establishment of an armed nobility like they had in Europe. In many European countries, only nobles (and eventually soldiers) were allowed to legally own and use weapons. That was one of the big reasons feudalism was as bad as it was: Nobles could use force with impunity on people who couldn’t legally defend themselves.

Anonymous 23h

What the hell does this even mean

Anonymous

#1 23h

OP's is critiquing the circular authority behind our constitution: our "rights" are just whatever the winners wrote down after winning. Colonists didn't take this land with muskets alone. Smallpox and other European diseases killed huge numbers of Native people, often before any fighting started, and at Fort Pitt in 1763 the British tried to spread it on purpose. Disease did more of the conquering than guns did, yet nobody calls it a sacred right. So why treat the musket like one?