On the Second Amendment
One of the contributors over at Peach Pundit is showing a very limited knowledge of both the Constitution and the intent Founding Fathers with the Second Amendment with this post on the Second Amendment and a gun ban in Washington, DC.
The District is arguing that the Second Amendment is a collective right. But one of the judges responses to that is great:
“Show me anybody in the 19th century who interprets the Second Amendment the way you do,” Judge Laurence Silberman said. “It doesn’t appear until much later, the middle of the 20th century.”
I typically enjoy banter with Decatur Guy, but I cannot express into words how wrong he is on the issue of gun ownership. He says he supports gun ownership, but says that this is “good regulation” and somehow believes that if all guns in the District are banned that criminals and drug dealers will stop using them. That is naive.
The Second Amendment is there, not just to keep government in check, but it’s for personal protection as well. It grants both the states to keep armed militias and the individual citizens the right to keep arms to guard against threats to their life, liberty and property, whether it be from government or criminal.
