[Billthedrill]

The author seems to think that labeling a point of view the NRA's somehow invalidates it. But the author is absolutely correct in his parsing of the Second Amendment: The amendment means that because a free state needs a militia, the right to guns can't be infringed. but neatly leaves out whose right is referred to in his synopsis. The framers did not.

I would agree with his suggestion Perhaps we should leave the Second Amendment alone and deal as best we can with an apparently inviolable right of the physically fit of military age to have guns. What I can't understand is why the author doesn't seem to buy into his own conclusion.

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I would agree with his suggestion Perhaps we should leave the Second Amendment alone and deal as best we can with an apparently inviolable right of the physically fit of military age to have guns. What I can't understand is why the author doesn't seem to buy into his own conclusion.

Why do you want to take guns away from the elderly or infirm?

Grandma needs her guns as much as the next guy.