Second Amendment No “Mythical ‘Collective Right’”
December 1, 2007
In further discussions about the Second Amendment and the U.S. Supreme Courts decision to hear District of Columbia vs. Heller, the Washington, D.C. gun ban case, Alan Gottlieb and Dave Workman have an Op-Ed piece in the Tuscon Citizen.
Alan Gottlieb is founder of the Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org). Dave Workman is senior editor of Gun Week (www.gunweek.com). They are co-authors of “America Fights Back – Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age”, recently published by Merril Press.
The two men clearly believe that the idea that the Second Amendment was to give the states the right to form and arm a militia is inaccurate.
An affirmative ruling by the high court that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms – beyond membership in a militia – will crush a cornerstone of gun control extremism, that the amendment is protective only of some mythical “collective right” of states to organize such militias.
Tom Remington
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