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
It’s shmucks like you Stevens, that are the reason our Founders wrote it the way they did! Die already, you useless old fart!The second protects us from tyrants like you and the rest of the liberal filth!
no thanks leave it just as it is!
Lay down and take a nap senile old fart ….
What an OLD FOOL! Former justice doesn’t make him anything but human and prone to mistakes. That’s my PC way to say “STFU!”
Who cares what this retired senile old idiot has to say?
He should have been debenched if he felt that way while serving as Supreme Court Justic for such an anti-Constitutional way of thinking. Thankfully he is no longer on the bench.
$#%&!@* THE $#%&!@*IN JEW
traitor to hthe oath
Ok move your worthless ass to a country that is already governed like that. Problem solved
Sorry Judge we don’t need to change the Constitution’s Amendments, we need to change the interpreters like you and the funky liberals Currently Demolishing it !