Why Not Use Science To Determine What Should Be Done About Gun Control?

[TxRider]

20. I see it like this..

The 2nd stating that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed can only be read as an individual right.

"The people" throughout the document refers to individuals and individual rights.

Regardless of intent then, or now, I see any interpretation of "The people" in the 2nd to mean anything other than individuals to pose a serious threat to protections of the rest of our rights.

We an argue about the first half of the 2nd amendment all day long, but to say that the 2nd oes not protect individuals rights cannot be accomplished without interpreting "the people" in the 2nd to mean other than individuals.

If that interpretation were to be codified then you can be assured that "the people" as used in the 1st amendment and all the others using "the people" to protect individual rights is very open to challenge in the future.

To me the only clear way forward if you want to change is to modify the 2nd amendment itself, not to twist an interpretation of convenience that opens up a threat to almost all our individual rights being challenged. It would not be a good precedent to set.