“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
— United States Constitution, Second Amendment
My first thought upon reading this amendment is that it immediately undercuts anyone who tries to argue for the inherent wisdom of the Founding Fathers. If they were so wise, surely they could have written a more grammatical and less obtuse sentence. Which is made even worse by the fact that we have to live with the Supreme Court’s changing interpretations of that obfuscation, the latest of which was handed down yesterday in McDonald v. Chicago.
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