Since the adoption of the Constituion’s Bill of Rights this is how the Second Amendment has read:<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
If I were in Congress today I would put forward an amendment that altered this verbiage to wit:<\/p>\n
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, the same as or the equivalent of those available at the adoption of the Constitution,<\/strong> shall not be infringed.<\/p>\n I think this would dramatically change the debate over the Second Amendment. It wouldn’t get 3\/4ths of the State’s approval today but perhaps it, or something along the same lines, would pass in the next generation.<\/p>\n For another sample of my thoughts about the Second Amendment read: The Wayning of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n