Repeal the Second Amendment?
Tribune reporter Dawn Turner Trice offers her insight regarding yesterday's landmark Supreme Court ruling in a op-ed "Repeal the 2nd Amendment". She offers her scholarly - but, as of yesterday, wholy misguided - view that, "The amendment was intended to protect the authority of the states to organize militias."
What irks me the most, however, is that Turner Tice, a civil rights advocate - just not for your 2nd Amendment civil right - feels that it is fit for any one group in an area to trump the rights of another group if they possess a majority in an that area. Isn't that what lead to part of what lead to that pickle known as the Civil War and the 1960's Civil Rights Movement?
One last thing that I feel compelled to address is her statement, "Citizens have had the right to protect themselves in their homes with other weapons, such as shotguns."
First, by following her logic, if citizens are allowed to own shotgun and guns are the problem, then why aren't shotgun crimes being decried by Chicago Mayor Daley? Oh yeah, it comes back to the fact that law-abiding gun owners aren't really the problem.
Second, the truth is that not everyone can handle a shotgun, even a small one like a .410 or a 28 Ga.: the elderly or infirm folks may be able to better control a small handgun. Regardless, law-abiding folks should have the right and the freedom to choose whatever tool works best for their needs!
Posted 01:16PM Jun 27, 2008 by MCSA
