Jeremy Scahill: Gun rights in this country were forged on the idea that white people had the right to take native people’s land by the barrel of the gun. They were forged on the idea that black people were living pieces of property that needed to be kept in place by armed slave patrols, militias and posse justice. No matter what your position on guns is, the Second Amendment stems from an ideology that is rooted in the belief that white people have the right to control others with their weapons. As historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz put it: “The Constitution is the sacred text of the civic religion that is US nationalism and that nationalism is inexorably tied to white supremacy.”