Why we need to maintain the Second Amendment

If you have followed national issues at all, you may have learned somewhere along the way that even the hallowed U.S. Supreme Court justices are not immune to all of the foibles, personal biases and character flaws that are the hallmark of the human condition. It is for this reason that our way of life can be altered irrevocably in monumental ways by the choices that presidents make in appointing Supreme Court justices. Not in my memory has this point ever been so stunningly underscored than by the recent jaw-dropping pronouncement by retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens, responding to pro-gun control marches by school students across the nation, is proposing repealing the Second Amendment . The 97-year old jurist asserts that the Second Amendment, which conveys to all law-abiding citizens the right to bear arms, is an 18th century relic that is no longer relevant to the America of today. Stevens is certainly cutting to the chase. Few gun control advocates would venture into such drastic political waters. Repealing the Second Amendment would most assuredly open the flood gates allowing gun control to be vaulted to the political fast track. Given the right congressional makeup, this could clear the way for the wholesale banning of gun ownership by all Americans, and eventual gun confiscation by the U.S. government. Stevens, who retired from the court in 2010, had two years earlier dissented in District of Columbia v. Heller , which upheld that the Second Amendment, indeed, allowed […]

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