All Posts Tagged With: "Second Amendment"
Reading the Second Amendment
“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.” —Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution Is this sentence so hard to understand? Apparently so. Even some of its defenders don’t like how it is worded because it [...]
1Feb1998 | Sheldon Richman | 0 comments | ContinuedGuns, Crime, and Freedom
Wayne LaPierre’s book Guns, Crime, and Freedom has a good many flaws. But in spite of them all, LaPierre has rendered a valuable service to the defenders of the Second Amendment. The primary virtue of Guns is that it collects nearly all of the arguments and evidence against gun control into one tidy volume, and [...]
1Feb1996 | Bowen H. Greenwood | 3 comments | Continued-
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