Former SCOTUS Justice And His Calls To Repeal The Second Amendment

By Tom Knighton

Time and time again, anti-gunners have claimed they just want “common sense gun reform.” They’re not after all the guns. Even the Brady Campaign said it supports the Second Amendment.

When we don’t believe them, however, we are accused of being paranoid, and they try to use it as fuel to prove we’re people who shouldn’t own guns. They’ll repeat that no one is coming for our guns.

But then, they turn around and applaud the op-ed from former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens in yesterday’s The New York Times.

That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms