Why millions of Americans — including me — own the AR-15

[gejohnston]

87. Carl T Bogus,

he isn't a historian, he is a law professor that worked for some gun prohibition think tank funded by the Joyce Foundation.
He wrote an article for a law review making that claim, but he never provided the evidence, since it was "the hidden history".
There is no evidence to support his claim, and slave patrols were State functionaries and not part of a militia.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1465114

BTW, law reviews are not peer reviewed.

Since his nonsense was ignored by historians, the only sites that cared to mention it were people like David Kopel, and this guy.
Since The Root seems left of center, I chose it.
http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2013/01/second_amendment_slave_control_not_the_aim/

Bogus, being one of the few believers in collective rights theory, relied on a book written by Herbert Aptheker in the late forties. Historians didn't take it seriously then, and even less so after research showed we had fewer slave revolts than other slave societies in the Western Hemisphere. The few that were not just in the South.

I used to like Hartman until he started sounding like an anti Mormon bigot with his "Romney is part of an LDS conspiracy to make the country a theocracy", that and his dishonesty on a few other issue. I found it hypocritical that he would attack my religious heritage, but any criticism of some religions is off limits. I frankly don't think he is as scholarly as he tries to portray himself.

BTW, saying that something is bad because it is more common among whites is just as racist and saying the same about any other race. White guilt and virtue signaling is no excuse.