“The Anglo-Americans’ settlers’ violent break from Britain in the late eighteenth century paralleled their search-and-destroy annihilation of Delaware, Cherokee, Muskogee, Seneca, Mohawk, Shawnee, and Miami, during which they slaughtered families without distinction of age or gender, and expanded the boundaries of the thirteen colonies into unceded Native territories.” This is a small history of the Second Amendment in the United States focusing almost entirely on the cultural arguments behind it, and not the political ones. Dunbar-Ortiz is responding to some general analyses that have been […]