Rewriting the 2nd Amendment

September 6, 2013

How's this for a rewritten 2nd Amendment?

"Because a well-regulated National Guard and Reserve, and well-regulated Federal, state, and local public safety departments, are necessary to the security of our free states and our free nation, the rights of citizens, while serving in their capacity in the aforesaid organizations, to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

...as opposed to the one agreed upon by our Founding Fathers?

"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."

The National Constitution Center has a "Next 10 Amendments" project that has come up with constitutional amendments and is asking people to vote on them.

So go vote on this preposterous 2nd Amendment rewrite - and reject it!

The voting has already been adjusted at least once. When I first looked at the site and registered my vote on September 4th there was a >93% rejection rate with well more than 13,000 votes in. The next day they had added a captcha requirement to register votes and reset the vote count. When I last looked it had >95% rejection with >4800 votes.

On the right-side panel there's also an amendment proposal concerning term limits for public office. In my opinion, it's not perfect but it's better than what we have.

http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2013/09/vote-now-a-constitutional-right-to-bear-arms/

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