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Originally Posted by Chula Vista
This is a good read. At the end of the day the 2nd Amendment can be legally read in two totally different ways.
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Amendme...=2nd+amendment
I'm a gun owner and my take after reading the book is that the 2nd is actually against guns for the general public. |
I think some people also interpret it as an if-statement - like, if a well-regulated militia is essential,
then people have the right to keep and bear arms. Honestly it doesn't matter to me what the framers meant - if I were a judge I'm sure I'd use some variation of Waldman's argument to justify banning guns, but that has nothing to do with the argument itself, it would just be a way to get what I want. Courts are a way to make policy, and that so few people recognize that is one of the things that really hurts our discourse.