This is a great letter to the editor responding to a ridiculous idea: The right to bear arms should be limited to 18th century firearms.
Our Founding Fathers, however, were not daft. They had experienced life under an oppressive government and they understood quite well that in order for a people to be truly free, they need a variety of protections, including free speech, the ability to redress grievances (I’d like to ask our founding fathers about McCain-Feingold), freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, and the ability to defend themselves against tyrants, both foreign and domestic.
Why not have one standard of interpretation for the entire Bill of Rights? Additionally, let’s not be in such a hurry to give up our rights, even those we may not be particularly interested in exercising.
As Benjamin Franklin so eloquently said, “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
As I have said before, the Second Amendment protects the other amendments. Without it, we have none.
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