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David Frum @davidfrum
The US government prosecuted the killers. The US Supreme Court dismissed the case against the killers as not properly a federal matter. https://t.co/hKp9fob2Jz 14/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The Reconstruction government of Louisiana had recruited black men into the legal state militia. In 1872, illegal white militias attacked a unit of the legal militia. The legal militia lost the fight and surrendered. The illegal white militia massacred the survivors. 13/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
It's now interesting to contrast Presser to the US Supreme Court's previous excursion into 2nd amendment law, US v. Cruikshank, in 1876. That case arose from the horrible Colfax massacre in Louisiana. https://t.co/90qZNZoyUf 12/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
2) that states had near-absolute authority to define who and what counted as a "militia" under the 2nd amendment. Presser's socialist group was a challenge to state authority, properly suppressed by state power. *THAT* part of Presser remains law even after McDonald. 11/x https://t.co/mo3dmCLd4t — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
The Supreme Court ruled against Presser https://t.co/u5vUMSoOFe on two main grounds: 1) The 2nd Amendment protects US citizens only against federal action, not state. (That part of the Presser holding was over-ruled in the 2010 case McDonald v. City of Chicago.) But also 10/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Presser appealed his conviction all the way to the US Supreme Court. Presser's lawyers there argued that Illinois could not ban Presser's militia because US citizens possessed a Second Amendment right to bear arms and to practice together. 9/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Presser's group defied the ban. In December 1879, they shouldered rifles and marched in Chicago. They were all promptly arrested - including Presser himself, who was armed only with a saber, an exemption specifically allowed by state law. Presser was tried and convicted. 8/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Appalled, the Illinois legislature in 1879 passed a law creating a National Guard as its state militia - and requiring any other would-be militias to request a license from the state governor. Presser's little group applied and was refused. 7/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Presser became convinced that the US was lurching toward a cataclysmic battle between Labor and Capitol. He recruited 30 fellow German and Czech immigrants into a militia against the coming class war. They got hold of Civil War surplus rifles and began to practice with them. 6/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Like many Chicago working men, Presser was radicalized by the sharp downturn in the US economy after the return to the gold standard in 1873. As prices plunged, factory owners cut wages. Workers resisted. Factory owners recruited armed enforcers against their workers. 5/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@TheAtlantic Specifically, let's talk about Herman Presser, the German-born labor activist at the center of one of the US Supreme Court's landmark Second Amendment cases. 4/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@TheAtlantic Yet here on Twitter (and in the email I get), there is a lot of talk about the private gun as bulwark against state tyranny. If the Nazis come to power in the United States, gun carriers will mobilize to do battle for the liberties of us all. So let's talk about that idea. 3/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
@TheAtlantic As the article details, the vast majority of American gun buyers buy their guns with a view to protecting themselves or their families. Very few entertain fantasies of waging private war on the government. They mostly buy handguns, not rifles, let alone military-style rifles. 2/x — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
A footnote to my @TheAtlantic on the hazards of individual gun ownership. 1/x https://t.co/gpW6t3F2tH — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
My first Labor Day since 1990 without a son or daughter resident in the house. Disorienting. — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @TheEconomist: The Conservative leader, Erin O’Toole, has displayed keen political instincts on the campaign trail. He avoids broaching… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @AlArabiya_Eng: The #Taliban took control of the center of #Panjshir district, the police headquarters and all facilities, a spokesman f… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
This fall, the US Supreme Court could very possibly inflict the guns-everywhere culture on states that don't permit guns to be carried in the streets. More at @TheAtlantic https://t.co/gpW6t3F2tH — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
As America leaves Afghanistan, Governor Abbott does his bit to bring Afghanistan's firearms culture to America. — PolitiTweet.org
Greg Abbott @GregAbbott_TX
Texas safeguards the 2nd Amendment. Today, Constitutional carry goes into effect. Texans who legally own a gun… https://t.co/4P3BtelaMy
David Frum @davidfrum
He’s a big Joe Rogan fan. — PolitiTweet.org
The Hill @thehill
Kim Jong Un turns down vaccines, insists on fighting pandemic in "our style" https://t.co/RW0s5rNOeP https://t.co/ycDFtqUDQo
David Frum @davidfrum
Andy's thread on American exceptionalism, dystopian edition — PolitiTweet.org
Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉 @ASlavitt
COVID Update: Over the long term the US could be among the countries with the highest cases, greatest risks of outb… https://t.co/XsJ9UWHVnx
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @travis_view: I see the trolls are claiming that I'm taking "horse dewormer" just because I am consuming an anti parasitic agent markete… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @shannonrwatts: A 5-year-old in Arizona was given access to a loaded unsecured firearm and fatally shot his 38-year-old mother. Arizona… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @Reuters: Early Canada election call backfires on Trudeau, who now trails in polls https://t.co/FPY1Qb6dKd https://t.co/3uQufTJBK4 — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
We entombed Chester today https://t.co/1222zH1PCV — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @TheAtlantic: Today in The Atlantic: @davidfrum on the fallout Texas Republicans may face over the restrictive abortion law. Plus, @Yasm… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @timesofindia: Hunted by the men they jailed, Afghanistan's women judges seek escape https://t.co/VDYTNhvE5n — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Consumer pressure can force COVID safety improvements — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
My wife recently had a disturbing experience with a company with negligent COVID practices: in her case a Phoenix-a… https://t.co/ysqCvNOhq5
David Frum @davidfrum
RT @DefenseBaron: JUST IN: AUSA, the giant annual convention for the US Army, will require proof of vaccines OR a negative COVID test of w/… — PolitiTweet.org
David Frum @davidfrum
Few gun owners are quick-witted enough to deploy a gun effectively in an emergency. In a study of all 198 unwanted home entries in Atlanta in summer of 1994, only *three* victims reached a gun in time. And one of the three was robbed anyway. https://t.co/gkGJgOQ1xY — PolitiTweet.org
