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
The Second Amendment doesn’t need any changes, period!!
Commie
Old fart needs to keep his fingers off the second amendment….it works fine the way our forefathers meant it to! Otherwise we will all have to join the militia and then they’d have the location of our guns….what turnip truck do they think we fell off ot?
This kind of thinking among those in charge is totally scary!
Didn’t know anything was wrong with it! It’s served us for decades and never had a problem. THE PROBLEM is this admn. and the pres. trying to change it (and everything else) to FIT “HIS” AGENDA!!
No. Delete the preface, and leave it as “The right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Solves all the problems very neatly.
$#%&!@* you you old prune faced, demented democratic $#%&!@*tard.
he would commitard the bill of rights was written for the people..i read a real old andrew jackson quote where he opinion that in the US WE DONT feared american citizans being armed because wage war by the balout box and even after the war between the states no effort was made to dissarmed the people..but the comminist dem party is after the second amement..the experts agree gun control works..stalin..lenin..mao..hitler..pol pot..and now the gungrabbers extroidenares doonesburg..obozo..and other lenins usefull idiots..
and obozo wants to tax cows farts..
Did he ever serve his country in the military? Or is he like most politican’s never served his country but wants to make decissions for people that have. The people with arms are the protection’ for their country against the out of control Gov.