Colion Noir is one of the best 2A advocates we have. Surprised that Maher had the nerve to go one-on-one with him.
Its kind of ironic... Maher wants to ban guns because they are bad, but he starts the topic by talking about his fondness for using drugs, which are banned. To start the show, Maher admits that bans DON'T WORK! I am a little surprised that Maher was as "reasonable" about these issues as he was... though he is still a liberal.
I've never seen/heard of Colion Noir before. He is a great spokesman and he's comfortable with a comedian poking a little fun at him and he is able to sidestep the racial overtones that Maher tries to throw into the argument. Maher throws the 2nd amendment as armed resistance to slave uprising, and Noir turns it around to show that the 2nd amendment helped the slaves and the North put down the south.
In Bill's defense he brings up a recent article where the author believes that the 2A was for the keeping slaves in line. That author's main agenda is hoping he can get enough of a following that history can be "re-written" so that they can push that gun ownership was not a tool of freedom but a tool for oppression masked in freedom.
There was also a small round table portion that was equally interesting to watch.
There was also a small round table portion that was equally interesting to watch.
I've had a couple of people try to impress that lie upon me too. My response is always "Even if that was true back then, and it wasn't, it's not true now. We also have a thirteenth amendment. The 2nd Amendment applies to me now."
It's amazing how that constitutional republic thing works over time even when there're attempts made to marginalize it.
Never surrender to the false premise that the Second Amendment had anything to do with slavery. When someone tries to lay that BS in front of you, tell them it's false and ask them if they've read Federalist 29 or Federalist 46, both of which very clearly lay out the reasoning for the Second Amendment in plain and simple language.
These were farmers, doctors, and lawyers who had to resort to using their privately owned guns an ammunition to overthrow their government. They had no faith that the new government would somehow be perfect and immune to the same types of abuses. They wanted to ensure that future generations maintained the ability to forcibly form a new government if and when it became necessary.
And when they laugh at you mockingly about regular people with small arms standing up to the full force and might of the US military, ask them how the North Vietnamese are doing these days, or the Taliban. Ask them how Muqtada al-Sadr is, now that his party owns 54 seats in Iraq. Even if the US military were willing to fight a popular revolutionary uprising in the US - even if they were willing to kill their own friends, neighbors, even family members - asymmetric warfare is very easily carried out until the larger side runs out of resources or will.