Actor Danny Glover tells students 2nd Amendment was created to protect slavery

[jonjon]

Actor Danny Glover tells students 2nd Amendment was created to protect slavery

The Constitution's Second Amendment was created to bolster slavery and capture land from Native Americans, award winning actor Danny Glover told a group of students at a Texas A&M sponsored event on Thursday.

Actor Danny Glover told students at Texas A&M University the intent of the Second Amendment was to protect slavery.

“I don’t know if you know the genesis of the right to bear arms,” he said. “The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans.”

“A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that’s what the genesis of the second amendment is,” he continued.

Glover, best known for roles in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise and “Angels in the Outfield,” was addressing students at an event being held in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Director of Texas A&M’s Memorial Student Center, Luke Altendorf, told Campus Reform on Friday that the university was unaware of Glover’ talking points prior to his speech.

“I had no idea, we really didn’t know that topic was coming up,” he told Campus Reform. “Someone was asking a question about activism, I think that’s where some of that came from.”

Altendorf declined to say if, or how much the school had paid for Glover’s speech, but said student fees were not used.

WATCH: Danny Glover says the Second Amendment was crafted by America's founding fathers to protect slavery

Why would A&M get a lying idiot like this to speak to students?

[Biker]

He cant help it hes an *******, his mother made him that way.

[chas32]

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery - Rebuttal I noticed the thread concerning the article ( http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890...eserve-slavery ) referencing the law journal article by Carl Bogus was locked. However, since that article is getting lots of eyeballs around the web, I thought I'd post a rebuttal...

Here's the original law journal article (1998): http://www.saf.org/lawreviews/bogus2.htm

This is a rebuttal: http://lawreview.byu.edu/archives/1998/4/kop.pdf (scroll down to p. 1522)

There is so much that is misleading in that law journal article. One example, after reading III. THE MYTH OF AN INSURRECTIONIST RIGHT from the Bogus article, compare it to the first section here: http://www.guncite.com/gc2ndcont.html

Incidentally here are some the the author's previous affiliations:

VIOLENCE POLICY CENTER, Washington, DC

National Advisory Panel, 1993-Present.

HANDGUN CONTROL, INC., Washington, DC

Board of Gov., 1992-93, Board of Directors, 1987-89.

THE CENTER TO PREVENT HANDGUN VIOLENCE, Washington, DC

Board of Directors, 1989-92.

http://www.law.gwu.edu/SiteCollectio...Carl_Bogus.pdf

Funny how this article: http://truth-out.org/news/item/13890...eserve-slavery fails to mention those affiliations. If some law journal article was penned by a former NRA board member, I think it'd be a different story.

[tommy17]

Glover should stick with acting. Art Linkletter said it best hollywood-actors don't live in the real world

[endeavor1]

Your children are worth homeschooling, right? The sacrifice is worth it, right? You're smart enough to figure out a plan to homeschool, right? 3 days a week of homeschooling is better than one month of public school. Just do it!

[dog53]

Now I might be wrong but when our founding fathers wrote the constitution and the 2nd amendment. Like that was before they started grabing all the land from the indians. Wasnt it. ? and im sure it wasnt the height of slavery.

Damm Danny. Boy are you dumb

[gymrat76541]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh well, I love his movies!

I know of no one who said he was intelligent.

[DinarMillionaire]

Just another ignorant, IDIOT ACTOR, Socialist! More revisionist history from the left. Maybe he should read something from the Founding Fathers. This bastard loves Fidel Castro.

Those Aggies should have thrown his stupid azz off campus.

[jonjon]

It made me feel sick when I watched this the first time.

I understand now that all he did was make those kids realize he was a fool.

[johnnyboyirish]

Oh Danny boy, the fibs the fibs you're tellin.......

[DiveDeepSix]

Now I might be wrong but when our founding fathers wrote the constitution and the 2nd amendment. Like that was before they started grabing all the land from the indians. Wasnt it. ? and im sure it wasnt the height of slavery.

Damm Danny. Boy are you dumb

Kind of what I was thinking buddy! "A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" Thomas Jefferson 1791.

Edited January 22, 2013 by DiveDeepSix