The Guardian: Gun Control Advocates The TRUE Defenders Of The Second Amendment

By Tom Knighton

We gun rights advocates claim we’re the defenders of the Second Amendment. This is usually something even the anti-gunners don’t dispute. They may argue about the relevancy of the Second Amendment, or how it should be interpreted, but they don’t argue that they’re somehow the real defenders of the Second Amendment.

But that’s not to say no one thinks that way.

In any debate about guns in America, there’s one aspect that’s seemingly inescapable: the moment when the National Rifle Association (NRA) or other defenders of an anything-goes gun policy recite the second amendment from memory.

Perhaps no subsection of a political movement is so passionately animated by a clause of the US constitution. As many a gun enthusiast is eager to say, gun regulation is a non-starter; the second amendment is the law of the land, so the government can’t tell me what to do with my guns.

But those seeking sensible gun regulation – like the 83% of Americans who support a mandatory waiting period for buying a gun and the 67% of Americans who agree with a ban on assault weapons – should not just accept the distortion of the second amendment as fact. Instead, they should loudly …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms