Posted on 02/22/2014 7:37:33 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens has released a new book focused, in part, on "improving" the Constitution through amending the Second Amendment--by making the rights protected therein applicable only to a militia instead of the citizenry at large.
Stevens' book is titled Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution.
As written, the text of the Second Amendment is: "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."
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Stevens believes recent court decisions--notably District of Columbia v Heller (2008) and McDonald v Chicago (2010)--placed too much emphasis on individual rights, rather than on what he believes was the Founding Fathers' primary goal: namely, to answer "the threat that a national standing army posed to the sovereignty of the states."
His solution is to amend the text of the Second Amendment so that it reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed."
In other words, the protection of the right becomes collective and is only protected for those serving in the militia.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Gerald Rudolph Ford, Jr., an alias, truly did play football too long without a helmet. He said of all his “achievements” as president the “greatest” is John Paul Stevens! Our little Republican primary voters have been nominating the wrong person for so long that I fear the liberal thrust can never be reversed.
To a liberal, all rights belong to the individual except when we are talking about possession of firearms.
This clashes with their idea of a utopian dictatorship.
Uh, no..
Look at the countries where only the military and police can own firearms.
As Limbaugh has said, If liberals interpreted the 2nd Amendment the same way they interpret the rest of the Constitution, firearm ownership would be mandatory.
Hannity to have him on his show as a guest to promote the book, in 3.....2....
The accepted definition of militia at the time of the Second Amendment was all abled bodied men. A change would negate the necessity of a standing army. We already have an army without a Commander-in-Chief, can the states protect themselves individually?
I would add a clause to the Second Amendment saying “It is both fitting and proper to shoot anyone who attempts to infringe on this right to keep and bear arms. “
Oh, and then only criminals will have guns via the black market. Won’t that be wonderful?
They shouldn't even call those propaganda mills schools anymore.
Only a hardcore commie pig or a radical Nazi maggot would think something like this. It's a good thing this moron is on his last legs.
Aren’t these black robed lawyer tyrants cute? So much smarter than our founders. Just ask them. /S
libs are angry we won the revolutionary war. And Dems are still angry over losing their slaves.
I like Ann Coulter’s comment about poisoning Justice Stevens creme brulee.
And remember that honest Liberal Michael Kinsey said that before Rush did. Maybe an honest Liberal is not a complete oxymoron.
The bitch doesn’t seem to mind leaving women unarmed, unprotected.
People like him wanting the rest of us to live as slaves to the state. I think a painful cancer death would be too good for him but some people say I’m a real hardass.
No.
There goes the Second Amendment.
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