@tofugolem
The Second Amendment was never about guns. Reagan & Heston & La Pierre created that narrative, and the NRA was completely supportive of gun control before then, because you can't have armed African Americans. 2A was intended by privileged and frightened property owners as protection for their stolen land & their chattel by force; to conscript their vassal neighbors when they and not any higher authority considered it necessary and to recover for them any property that had been expropriated or had run away - women, livestock, or slaves (laws made little distinction) to return them dead or alive, and to kill any indigenous people they encountered. Fundamentally this constitutional amendment had nothing whatever to do with guns, until Wayne LaPierre, Charlton Heston, and their "Federalist" fundraiser pals made that claim to warp the Constitution to fit their own white-christian-nationalist, prosperity theology after Ronald Reagan's White Fear gun control measures. Until that time the NRA was in favor of #gunControl