Revisiting the Second Amendment – Monadnock Ledger Transcript

Published: 6/2/2022 9:25:28 AM

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.

Do the rights to bear arms remain if there is an existing well regulated militia? Is a well regulated militia to be formed by those who have the rightto bear arms? Hasnt Congress decided that the National Guard is the militia? Hasnt the security of the United States been repeatedly and successfully defended by the U.S. armed forces? Can the security of a free state, or more importantly its citizens, be ensured by the peoples right to bear arms, or can it also be threatened, compromisedeven violated because of that right?

Shouldnt we be more concerned about how this amendments interpretation has changed our society for the worse? How it has led to increased violence, fears of public exposure, changed schools settings from places of safe learning to increasingly militarized fortresses.

This amendment has been addressed by the Supreme Court in 1876, 1886, 1939 and 2008, when the current ruling passed by a 5-4 decision. I think it time for the Supreme Court to revisit the issue.

Frank Meneghini

Peterborough

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