From Businessweek (owned by Bloomberg) so we know which way it leans

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Gun Control and the Constitution: Should We Amend the Second Amendment? - Businessweek

Says that the 2nd Amendment needs modifying to read:

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.

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[338125X3]

How about this:

Because a well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the PEOPLE to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed* (*have any laws whatsoever passed to even slightly restrict that right so they may muster together to fight a tyrannical government Militia - as we did when forming this country)

 

[simon99]

I am a militia of one.....

 

[GOG]

III%

 

[3MTA3]

How about respecting that the Bill of Rights are rights afforded the People and not the State?

 

[Stomper]

I am a militia of one.....

III%

I see my signature statement, and avatar note are rubbing off on a few of you around here!



I do actually like how that article ended... Couldn't be any truer.

For a significant minority of Americans, firearms represent individualism, independence, and self-reliance. In the eyes of citizens who connect these values to gun ownership, membership in a militia—whatever that would mean in the modern context—isn’t a necessary part of the equation. Amending the Constitution, and that includes amending an amendment, is a political undertaking that has to reflect the will of “we the people.” These days, an awful lot of those people, the vast majority of whom obey the law and pay their taxes, like their guns and intend to keep them.