[Jesse Segovia]

Thanks, but for some reason, these editorials were not available on the Boston Globe web site.

At least, I couldn't find them.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Oh!!! In that case, thanks for the reat effort! I will be back.

[marktwain]

The best reading of the second amendment, I believe, would recognize that it was designed to oblige the national government to maintain and support the state-based militia as part of the overall defense establishment. It would therebyprevent the national government from relying solely on the dreaded “standing army,” which many Americans believed would be inimical to liberty.

This is a silly argument. Article I section 8 already does this. The Second Amendment is an amendment, so it supersedes the rest of the Constitution. If the Senate had left in the phrase "the whole of the people" the anti-rights crowd would now be claiming that that proved that they did *not* mean "individual" rights.