Some folk over at Harvard think so. Allow me to disagree.
Via Bureaucrash I picked up an article in the Harvard Crimson arguing that the Second Amendment to the U.S. constitution is an “anachronism” (curiously the only five-dollar word contained therein). The article is the worst of the bleeding-heart worst:
Supporters of a constitutionally [...]
In the news yesterday was the Supreme Court’s announcement that it will finally revisit (early next year) the beleaguered Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The question this time around is over the constitutionality of the District of Columbia’s “regulation” which was struck down last year, after thirty years of oppressing those who live [...]
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.
That’s the second amendment, folks. And I intend to show what prior courts and my opponents have neglected to take into account: the context of the amendment, the necessity [...]
