The Second Amendment is About Slavery
The Bill Press Pod
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4.7 • 601 Ratings
🗓️ 31 May 2022
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Elie Mystal returns to the Bill Press Pod with a withering takedown of the Second Amendment, Justice Alito and Supreme Court Ethics. He is The Nation Magazine’s Justice Correspondent. He's a frequent guest on MSNBC commenting on the intersection between the legal and the political. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, he gave up Big Law to fight for justice.
He has just published a new book that immediately landed on the New York Times bestseller list at #2. Allow Me to Retort A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution can be purchased here.
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| 1:04.9 | Hello, good to see you, and welcome to the Bill Press pod. |
| 1:12.0 | Well, in the wake of the horrific school shooting in Texas last week, we've heard all the usual lame excuses from the gun nuts for doing nothing about guns. You know, guns don't kill people, people |
| 1:18.1 | kill people. It's not a gun problem. It's a mental health problem. Democrats are just trying |
| 1:23.5 | to politicize the issue. We need more armed guards in every school, and every teacher |
| 1:28.9 | needs a loaded gun in every classroom. And of course, the old fallback, the Second Amendment |
| 1:37.0 | gives me the right to own any gun I want and as many of them as I want, all of which, of course, |
| 1:45.7 | is pure bullshit. |
| 1:51.8 | So we thought it was time to check in with our own constitutional expert, |
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