Wednesday, May 15, 2002

The NY Times published 5 letters on the 2nd Amendment, in response to an anti-gun op-ed. 2 for and 2 against.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/16/opinion/L16GUNS.html

One anti-gun letter takes a position contradicting the op-ed. The op-ed argued that the militia is not the body of the people, because an earlier draft of the 2nd Amendment had that definition and dropped it. I don't know what he thinks the militia is, because all the laws and dictionaries define it that way.

The letter argues that the gun rights belong to the militia because The Virginia Declaration of Rights says so. But that document defines the militia as the body of the people. So again, it's the people who have the gun rights.

These anti-gun folks cannot seem to tell us what right the 2nd Amendment does guarantee, if not the individual right to keep and bear arms.

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