"More Worried About Armed Blacks Than British Redcoats"

"It's because of several things. The emphasis on the Second Amendment has been crafted as a well-regulated militia in terms of (opposing) a tyrannical government or stopping a foreign invasion, and the individual right to bear arms. That's the way it's been cast in the legal debates. That's driven our historical debates. We've got a weird bifurcation in the scholarship between the history of slavery and the history of the Second Amendment. What I'm doing is saying these things are all happening at the same time."

John Blake at CNN interviews Carol Anderson about her new book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America.