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
GFY!
Take your old ass home !!!
BULL$#%&!@*
It’s just fine as it is written…….besides that ..the founding fathers were smarter that YOU!!
This OLD worn out rest home bait; knows that one word can change the complete meaning of what a sentence is intended to confer from its original conception… This will open the doors for the power hungry Socialist in leadership today…I have said before ,if there is any changes it should be term limits on these elder buzzards for the parties that appointed them… They should have to run for the open offices and term limits should be laid out upon them also…The change would having all guns locked away until war is upon us…It would also empower the Federal Government to keep them locked while tyranny is rained out upon We The People… There is no way do side wind the language to keep this from meaning just what it is saying…Also if I am a BIGOT, I am a 78 year old bigot that has seen the changes coming when this admitted Progressive Socialist was running for office…
So he thinks it just refers to people in the National Guard? I don’t think so, Mr Justice.
ASK SMITH AND WESSON
Our Constitution is fine without you liberal idiots changing it.
That would not protect us from the government or anything else
This old son of bitch needs to shut the hell up. He is crazy.