Thursday, January 29, 2004

Guns

The Cato Institute has an excellent article about gun control in Washington D.C. Here's my favorite paragraph: Walton's interpretation is, of course, at odds with the fairly clear text of the Constitution. The Framers were careful enough with language not to confuse the "right of the people" with the rights of a state. Just as in the First and Fourth Amendments, "the right of the people" in the Second Amendment is an individual right.

How intellectually dishonest do you have to be to believe that the second amendment doesn't give people the right to bear arms.