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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
I read it. Kind of boring law review analysis designed for law professors and other academics. He seems to be influenced quite a bit by the thinking of Thomas Kuhn and his various models and the like. Kuhn's field was the history of science and paradigms. I doubt if many Congressmen and women are thinking about paradigms though not would the Founding Fathers have been writing in terms of these but probably based on their readings of English, Roman and Greek history while not trying to make a living in 1789 America.
The 2nd Amendment is about the right to bear arms. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/second_amendment The debate is about who has that right-- people, a militia, a standing army, etc.
This also from 1995-- A CRITICAL GUIDE TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT Quite a lot of important events in the gun debate from then to now. |
Thanks for reading it. But the debate is NOT about WHO has that right any more than a debate about who has the right to freedom of speech, or freedom of religion. It is the individual. Your dismissal of the constitution as being outdated (written in 1789; it's 2015) is unfortunate.