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F6, two key points: 1. "In December 2008, Pitcaithley gave a talk to public school educators in Mississippi, and used as part of his presentation this quotation from the Mississippi Declaration of Secession: “Our cause is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, the greatest material interest of the world.” That sentence is now prominently displayed on the wall of the National Park Service visitors’ center in Corinth, Mississippi, near the site of the battle of Shiloh. Pitcaithley took a picture of the display and used it in his presentation. After his talk, he was chatting with a thirty-four-year-old black school principal who had grown up in Mississippi, attended its public schools, and received his university education there. “I asked him if he’d ever seen that [quotation] and he said no—he’d never even heard of that.”"

that from the 2nd last paragraph in your article "The South still lies about the Civil War" .. yes .. that in the Mississippi Declaration of Secession is stark evidence, amongst all the rest, that slavery was the reason for the civil war ..

2 key points for me to take away from that post .. number 2. re the reason
and meaning of the 2nd Amendment, in the 3rd link off the bottom of your post ..

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery .. the last bit of first item ..

But the southern fears wouldn't go away.

Patrick Henry even argued that southerner's "property" (slaves) would be lost under the new Constitution, and the resulting slave uprising would be less than peaceful or tranquil:

"In this situation," Henry said to Madison, "I see a great deal of the property of the people of Virginia in jeopardy, and their peace and tranquility gone."

So Madison, who had (at Jefferson's insistence) already begun to prepare proposed amendments to the Constitution, changed his first draft of one that addressed the militia issue to make sure it was unambiguous that the southern states could maintain their slave patrol militias.

His first draft for what became the Second Amendment had said: "The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed, and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country [emphasis mine]: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms, shall be compelled to render military service in person."

But Henry, Mason and others wanted southern states to preserve their slave-patrol militias independent of the federal government. So Madison changed the word "country" to the word "state," and redrafted the Second Amendment into today's form:

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State [emphasis mine], the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Little did Madison realize that one day in the future weapons-manufacturing corporations, newly defined as "persons" by a Supreme Court some have called dysfunctional, would use his slave patrol militia amendment to protect their "right" to manufacture and sell assault weapons used to murder schoolchildren.

Copyright, Truthout.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890-the-second-amendment-was-ratified-to-preserve-slavery [with comments]
http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=83473699

.. slavery .. and the change of the word country to state in the 2nd amendment ..
to preserve the independence of the slave patrol militias of the southern states ..

key facts for one to remember, i reckon .. remind me tomorrow please .. lolol .. night now .. have a relaxed day .. :)