On September 25, 1789, Congress sent the amendments to the states. In less than two years, three-fourths of them had ratified the Bill of Rights, and the Second Amendment came into being on December 15, 1791, steeped in anti-Blackness, swaddled in the desire to keep African-descended people rightless and powerless, and as yet another bone tossed to keep the South mollified and willing to stay aligned with the grand experiment of the United States of America.145
