Scope of 2nd Amendment's Questioned
Found on Washington Post on Friday, 08 December 2006
In a case that could shape firearms laws nationwide, attorneys for the District of Columbia argued Thursday that the Second Amendment right to bear arms applies only to militias, not individuals.
At issue in the case before a federal appeals court is whether the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms" applies to all people or only to "a well regulated militia." The Bush administration has endorsed individual gun-ownership rights but the Supreme Court has never settled the issue.
"That's quite a task for any court to decide that a right is no longer necessary," Alan Gura, an attorney for the plaintiffs, replied. "If we decide that it's no longer necessary, can we erase any part of the Constitution?"
The problem is that too many people think that a weapon can solve everything while they have in fact created way more problems instead. It's only natural that over decades and centuries things change. In the past, husbands had the right to punish their wives without having to fear legal consequences (although some might argue that this shouldn't have been changed). I'd say that's ethic and moral evolution. But then, all this happens in a country that doesn't really believe in the theory of evolution.