Rep. Bill Foster: Second Amendment meant to be reinterpreted by each generation

chicagotribune ^ | 4/3/2018 | Erin Hegarty

[MarvinStinson]

U.S. Rep. Bill Foster told a community forum audience Monday the Second Amendment should be up for reinterpretation as new generations come into power.

"It always has been up for reinterpretation," Foster, D-Naperville, said. "The technology changes, and the weapons thought to be too dangerous to be in private hands change. A civil war cannon is frankly much less dangerous than weapons we are allowed to carry on the streets in many of the states and cities in our country today. This is something where technology changes and public attitude changes and both are important in each of the generations."

The event was held less than two months after a shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school left 17 students and school employees dead and spurred student movements across the country to tighten gun restrictions.

Two area high school students, Rohan Chakrabarty and Jacob Baron, who helped lead walkouts at their schools in response to gun violence last month, helped answer audience questions.

"It's up to generations to interpret parts of the Constitution," said Rohan, a senior at Metea Valley High School. "We should continue to progress our views on something like the Second Amendment."

Jacob Baron, a senior at Naperville North High School, grew up in Newtown, Conn., where 26 students and staff members where killed in a school shooting in 2012.

"Planning escape routes, ideal places to hide — that's no way to go about my school day every single day," Jacob said.

"It's hard to not feel unsafe in school, especially with the culture of having lock-down drills every month."

"I firmly believe the student-led movement I've been able to take part in will instill a passion in my generation," he said.

[elcid1970]

Uh...a little less use of all caps, s’il vous plait?

I think your post can be summed up thus:

Government at every level is now perceived as not only incompetent, but willfully and even malevolently incompetent & dismissive of criticism while allowing disastrous incidents to occur which it was government’s responsibility to prevent.

Like the police who are only minutes away when every second counts.

As a result, individuals have no choice but to rely upon their own resources to protect the wellbeing of themselves & their loved ones.

One of those resources is defensive guns & ammunition. Sales are again soaring as in the Obama years. There is no `Trump slump’.

[mabarker1]

NO you STUPID commie politician !!!!

It’s based that WE THE PEOPLE HAVE EQUAL WEAPONS TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT IN CHECK !!!

One doesn’t bring a Pea Shooter to a Tank Battle...