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  • I mean yeah that’s one reason.

    But the main reason was to be able to form militias to catch runaway slaves. They didn’t want the government interfering with their slave patrols.

    Slaves and even freed black men were prohibited from carrying firearms by state law. Dread Scott v Sandford in 1857 even had SCOTUS chief justice saying that black men can’t be citizens because then they could have guns and that would be an unacceptable threat to public safety.

    Madison (a Virginian) wrote the second amendment specifically to appeal to Southern states.

    One of the primary goals Republicans (the ones that freed the slaves, not modern republicans) had for the 14th amendment was specifically to ensure black men could arm themselves to protect against persecution from ex-slavers in the south.