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Constitution (Schedule Tribes) Order Second Amendment Bill 2012

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Published: Sept. 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM

DENTON, Texas, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Officials with a Texas school district said a U.S. history book with a misleading summary of the Second Amendment is not a primary text.

The Denton Independent School District book, "U.S. History: Preparing for Advanced Placement Exam," summarizes the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as "The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia," KDAF-TV, Dallas, reported Thursday.

The Second Amendment actually 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."

Some residents said they were shocked by the book's interpretation.

"That really puts it in a light that people have the right to bear arms only in a militia setting, and that's not the intent," Rich Wallace said.

Denton ISD spokeswoman Sharon Cox said the book is not the primary text for the class, but rather "a supplement instructional aid."

Cox said instructors "are teaching the amendments from the primary source, the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments, and from the classroom textbook, 'American Pageant.'"

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Obama Regime: Exploiting Mass Shootings to Destroy The Second Amendment
Obama Regime: Exploiting Mass Shootings to Destroy The Second Amendment California Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein has exploited another mass shooting to c...

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Colorado s Gun Control Recall Second Amendment Restrictions Trigger Pushback in the Rockies

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Fox News Demonizes Second Amendment Activist
Julie Wilson 124 Drivers call 911 on Second Amendment activist because they saw a man with a big gun and got scared.

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Oklahoma Second Amendment Association
Phone conversation with Glenn Beck on the improvement of Oklahoma Gun Laws with Don Spencer, Vice President of Oklahoma Second Amendment Association.

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6:02 p.m.Sept. 18, 2013

Steve Breens Sept. 17 editorial cartoon on the Washington, D.C., shooting asks why, but I think the more pertinent question is how.

The answer is with a gun. If a terrorist group or a foreign country was assassinating our citizens at the rate domestic gun violence is doing it, society would be in an uproar and fighting on all fronts.

Most Americans want reasonable gun control. The framers of The Bill of Rights did not have modern weapons in mind when they drafted the second amendment. This country is being held hostage by the National Rifle Association, which is supported by our senators and representatives. When will enough be enough?

Jennifer Ouellette

San Diego

Steve Swendrowskis request (Letters, Sept. 18) for stronger mental health laws instead of better gun-control laws has become the catchword of the National Rifle Association for some time.

In answer to this, please note once and for all, the person who has a severe mental illness has about a 75 percent chance of killing himself rather than going on a rampage to slaughter others. And if the police in Rhode Island saw the severity of Aaron Alexis delusions and hallucinations, why they did not take him to the nearest psychiatric unit for a complete examination?

As a mental health social worker for 40 years in San Diego, I know the local police have instructions on dealing with this type of situation and if they feel the person is a danger to himself or others, they can act accordingly.

Ray Schwartz

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Ada The language of the Second Amendment is simple: 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.

Those 27 words are more complicated than they appear and have sparked a national debate over what the amendment means.

Dr. Paul Collins, associate professor of political science at the University of North Texas, spoke about the Second Amendment and its future during a lecture Tuesday at East Central University. He gave students a quick overview of the amendment, summarized key U.S. Supreme Court cases on the subject and predicted how the amendment would fare in the future.

Collins said the first clause of the amendment leads people to believe that it does not protect peoples right to carry firearms unless they serve in a branch of the U.S. military. But he said people who zero in on the second clause conclude that the amendment protects an individual right to carry guns.

For those that put a lot of faith in the preface, it seems to suggest theres no individual right to keep and bear arms, he said. For those that focus on the operative clause and sort of set aside the preface, set aside that justification clause, that gets you to the individual-right interpretation.

ECU hosted the lecture to celebrate Constitution Day, which commemorates the signing of the U.S. Constitution. The colleges Rothbaum Lecture series is funded by an endowment established by the late Julian Rothbaum.

Key cases

The U.S. Supreme Court first tackled Second Amendment issues in 1939, when the court upheld a federal law banning shipments of sawed-off shotguns in interstate commerce. The court declined to strike down the law on Second Amendment grounds without evidence that sawed-off shotguns were linked to preserving a well-regulated militia.

Collins said the courts holding in U.S. v. Miller was the law of the land until 2008, when the justices heard arguments in District of Columbia v. Heller. That case centered on whether the District of Columbia could legally ban handguns.

The Heller decision struck down the districts ban on handguns and upheld an individual right to use firearms for legal purposes, such as self-defense in the home. But the court also said that certain regulations such as barring felons from owning guns are legitimate.

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Who Is the Second Amendment Foundation? [Video]
Videojournalist Greg Presto profiles the Second Amendment Foundation, a powerful gun lobby group.

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People across the web are up in arms today over a Second Amendment explanation given in a Texas high school textbook.

The book under scrutiny is called U.S. History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Exams. School officials say the book is a supplemental textbook for Advanced Placement history students.

The book contains a Bill of Rights study section in which brief explanations for the first ten amendments of the constitution are given. Many across the web are pointing out the questionable summary given for the rights granted to citizens in the Second Amendment.

The book explains the amendment as follows:

The people have a right to keep and bear arms in a state militia.

This extremely brief summary of the amendment seems to apply that citizens need to be in a state militia in order to maintain their right to own a firearm a view that many disagree with.

A more commonly held view than the one proposed in the book is that a militia is necessary to protect a free state, and in order to have a militia the citizenry must be armed. Thus, citizens must maintain the right to bear arms.

Politics professor Dave Corbin of Kings College in New York spoke to The Blaze today about the perceived amendment misinterpretation in the text.

The incorrect description of the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia above makes ones right dependent upons ones membership in a state militia, he said. The founders believed, to quote William Blackstone, that the right to keep and bear arms was an individual right auxiliary to the natural right of resistance and self-preservation.

Sharon Cox, the Director of Communications and Community Relations for the Denton, Texas Independent School District, released a statement today on the supplemental textbooks place in the schools curriculum. Heres an excerpt from her statement:

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