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Our Second Amendment rights aren't as clear-cut as you might think. Here's what the Constitution actually says about the right to bear arms.
The Second Amendment, the Bill of Rights, and the Constitution What the historical evidence says about the Second Amendment and individual rights. Damon Root | 6.20.2016 9:35 AM ...
The Nation’s justice correspondent Elie Mystal argued the Second Amendment was only intended for preserving slavery and ending slave revolts. The frequent MSNBC guest appeared on Peacock’s ...
We don’t need an amendment prohibiting guns or protecting them. We just need a 28 th Amendment that repeals the 2 nd. The Constitution should be silent, because there’s a lot we need to talk ...
The Second Amendment conceded nothing to the Anti-Federalists’ desire to sharply curtail the military power that the Constitution gave the federal government, but that very fact prevented the ...
In this essay from the National Constitution Center’s Interactive Constitution project, scholars Nelson Lund and Adam Winkler look at the Second Amendment’s origins and the modern debates ...
In each case, defenders of gun rights have invoked the Second Amendment, the text that casts a long shadow across all discussions of guns in the U.S. At times, it seems to all but end such discussion.
Gun control advocates have long questioned whether the Constitution’s seemingly straightforward Second Amendment “right of the people to keep and bear arms” really means that the lady next ...
The Second Amendment is in the Constitution, and suddenly so is everything else. March 28, 2018 (Tom Toles) We can’t have sane gun laws, as we used to have, because of the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment acknowledged the vulnerability of a nation in its infancy, but could not predict a world where some would move through life feeling more like targets than citizens.
The Second Amendment Doesn’t Say What You Think It Does Michael Waldman debunks claims that the Constitution protects an unlimited right to guns.
Richard Rogers, a board member of the Iowa Firearms Coalition, a gun rights advocacy group, said courts in Second Amendment cases have not been protective enough of the right to keep and bear arms ...