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Again, welcome! Trevj (talk) 23:53, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states
editTanks for the warm cookie :) Just registered on here tonight after seeing what i'll talk about below. (i'll get this thanks line in the right place sometime lol) anywho on to what motivated me to register tonight...
from the 2nd amendment page, right on the top it says "The Second Amendment (Amendment II) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms in order to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states"
The reference points to http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery which looks to me to be a progressive blog, making it rather biased, and in my opinion not a good reference for what was added to the top of the page. It has been in the list of reasons farther down the page "suppressing insurrection, allegedly including slave revolts" and i see no reason that alleged reason should be mentioned on the top of the page.
Even in the article you referenced, there is alot of additions of words in []'s, meaning the person that wrote the article, or someone else, took the liberty of adding those bracketed words, and reading it from my unbiased standpoint it seems most all of those bracket additions were put in place to try to make it a fact that the 2nd amendment was created for that purpose, or entirely for that purpose.
They just finished fighting off a tyrannical government that they wanted to get away from. I don't think that alleged reason was first on their minds when they created the 2nd amendment. Granted it is allegedly one of several reasons the 2nd amendment was created, it is not the only reason, and should not have special mention in the beginning of the article that, in the way it is worded there, tries to make it sound like a positive reason and the primary reason the 2nd amendment was created.
That alleged reason has no higher precedence over the other reasons listed lower in the article. The addition of "in order to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states" at the beginning of the page should be removed as it is appropriately mentioned with several other reasons in the "Experience in America prior to the U.S. Constitution" section.
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editDo not put the project at risk by introducing copyright violations. You have already been warned about this. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:58, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
Reviewing some of your other contributions, this is also a copyright violation. It appears to have been copied from this webiste. Again, this kind of thing puts Wikipedia at risk. Please review your past contributions and remove all instances in which you have copied text. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:25, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
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