More Perfect

The Gun Show

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1:09:43 | Oct 12th, 2017

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For nearly 200 years of our nation’s history, the Second Amendment was an all-but-forgotten rule about the importance of militias. But in the 1960s and 70s, a movement emerged — led by Black Panthers ...Show More



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rmmiller364 recommended:Jul 19th, 2020

Such an important episode on the history of gun rights activism in the US. There was one point in time when Democrats and Republicans did seem like they would get serious about restricting guns. It was in the 1960s and they wanted to prevent Black Panthers from being armed. Even Ronald Reagan, when ...Show More

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💡 Educational
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🕵️‍ Well-researched
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epekilis recommended:Dec 20th, 2017

Enthralling listening traces how the right to bear arms developed as a US social juggernaut and got delinked to Individual rights to self defence from that pesky concept of armed state militias. It’s all in the commas, folks...

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