Historian Gerald Horne: 'You Can't Disconnect History of the 2nd Amendment From the History of White Supremacy'

'President Obama warned that the easy access to guns nationwide has exacerbated divisions between the police and local communities. +Democracy Now! speaks to Gerald Horne, an expert on the Second Amendment from the founding of the Ku Klux Klan to the Black Panthers, who complicates President Obama's sentiments. Horne is a professor of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston and the author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America.'