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
SCREW him!!
HELL NO. OUR FORE FATHERS KNEW WHAT THEY WERE ABOUT WHEN THEY WROTE THE CONSTITUTION! DON’T MESS IT UP BECAUSE IT DOESN’T FIR NOW. IT DID THEM AND DOES NOW!
WAAAY to much “Kool-Aid”
This guy is a real idiot!
we are always serving in the militia
“WE THE PEOPLE” Don’t Agree with You!!!!!!!!
This the result of too much power too long; stupid takes charge of the mind. The founding fathers stated that the armed public had a duty to overthrow the government when it turned into tyrannical activities. This retired liberal is just trying to disarm America so we will be like Cambodia and Pol Pot and Germany with Hitler. Do not listen and to their rhetoric because an armed people are a free people. PERIOD!!
THIS GUYWAS A IDIOT WHEN HES WAS A JUDGE.
Too old to be rational. There comes a time for all.
Forget his change to the #2 amendment; he changes its entire meaning and will cause our government to become the biggest gun-grabbers of all.