Pierce: We Have Many Freedoms in America. Only One Requires These Kinds of Sacrifices.

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15. Or we could follow what the 2nd Amendment says.

“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.”

We need to ignore that first comma (especially since punctuation at the time was not always consistent). A well-revulated militia is our National Guard and our standing military, which did not exist at the time of this amendment. The right of the people to bear arms to serve in the military or the National Guard shall not be infringed. Of course, this interpretation will never fly in our current environment, but we need to push the well regulated portion harder. Gun crazies conveniently ignore that part.