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The Truth about the Second Amendment
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Mark A. Taff
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And certainly, there has been a move away from the mid-20th-century consensus that the Second Amendment was either meaningless — in 1975, the American Bar Association proclaimed bizarrely that “it is doubtful that the Founding Fathers had any intent in mind with regard to the meaning of this Amendment” — or wholly without teeth as a protector of individual rights. And yet, contrary to popular claims, these transformations did not represent a novel revolution in meaning or interpretation but rather a much-needed restoration of what for most of American history was supremely, even mundanely, obvious: that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms” means “the right of the people to keep and bear arms.” |
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PHORTO
(8/10/2018)
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| Absolutely superb. |
| Comment by:
lucky5eddie
(8/10/2018)
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| A very good article. If you came here first and didnt read the article, you did it backwards. |
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