Former Supreme Court Justice Wants to “Fix” the Second Amendment By Adding Five Words

By Steve Straub On April 13, 2014 ·




This would be a dream come true for the gun controllers and statists among us!

Via IJ Review:
John Paul Stevens, who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court from 1975 to 2010, recently proposed that five words be added to the Second Amendment. From his book, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution:”
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms [when serving in the Militia] shall not be infringed.”
Emotional claims that the right to possess deadly weapons is so important that it is protected by the federal Constitution distort intelligent debate about the wisdom of particular aspects of proposed legislation designed to minimize the slaughter caused by the prevalence of guns in private hands.

Those emotional arguments would be nullified by the adoption of my proposed amendment. The amendment certainly would not silence the powerful voice of the gun lobby; it would merely eliminate its ability to advance one mistaken argument.

Stevens argues his point from a historical context rather than an emotional standpoint. He says that since our Founding Fathers had no practical reason to worry that the government would ever prevent the right to self-defense, they did not see the need to address it in the Constitution.
What do you think about former Justice Steven’s proposal?

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Hey Stevens what part of bought and paid for do you come under past or present!!!!