Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is releasing a new book in which he argues that the phrase “when serving in the militia” should be added to the Second Amendment.
The book is titled, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution”
The Second Amendment reads as follows: 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.
With Stevens’ proposed change: 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.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens is set to release a new book in which he argues that the phrase “when serving in the militia” should be added to the Second Amendment.
The book is titled, “Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution,” and the change Stevens has in mind for the Second Amendment would alter the language so as to render it a protection of a collective right instead of an individual one.
Moreover, it would be a right that the government–at all levels–could regulate without hesitation.
Currently, the Second Amendment reads:
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.
Stevens’ contends that this was intended as a collective right only and that it was “limited in scope to the uses of arms related to military activity.”
According to The Washington Post, Stevens claims this was changed via the Supreme Court’s District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) decision. He says this decision suddenly introduced protections for “a civilian’s right to keep a handgun in his home for purposes of self-defense.”
Stevens says the McDonald v. Chicago (2010) decision furthered these changes by using “the due process clause of the 14th Amendment” to limit the ability of cities to ban the possession of handguns.
He says this can all be remedied by adding five words to the Second Amendment:
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
That stinks, Mr Justice. It just plays right into the hands of all the Liberal/Socialist/Progressive/Communists/ Nazi nut jobs running around out there.
NO sir your wrong……. we the people have the right and we have been told to be ready to serve in a MIlitia!
Fine, so now I’m serving in the militia – which the feds are MORE afraid of than mere gun owners.
Senile old fool.
Define “when serving in the militia”? I serve my country each and every day. I don’t need a uniform to say I’m part of a militia. I belong to the militia of the People, not the military of the government. So Former Justice Stevens, you can go $#%&!@* yourself. Sincerely – one pissed of American
Hell No! They wrote it the way it is for a reason.
ok, so, he wants to correct it as he sees fit. It’s important then, that I correct one he objects to. No. the answer is no, just because he doesn’t like it. The document stands as it was written!
And someone thinks that 38 states would ratify such a change to the constitution? I can think of a few that definitely would – California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Rhode Island. But getting 32 more to go along, I think not. It’s a lot easier to come up with 13 states that would NOT – Arkansas, Kentucky, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dalota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wyoming to name a few.
Steven’s rewording completely changes the protection that the American People and a Free Society must have to survive and maintain their freedom. Evidently, he’s really losing it. This is not a “correction”, but an attempt to gut the Second Amendment!
Sounds like they want to know who has guns by knowingwho is in tha malitia pretty much saying let us know ur fighting against us so we can go behind u and enslave ur family and make u surrender so it all plays out by not having to have everyone register for their guns cuz I ain’t registering $#%&!@* no lie