Re: “Gay marriage vs. gun rights,” by Sanford Thatcher, July 4 Letters.
Sanford Thatcher joins many confused predecessors in believing that the Second Amendment authors intended “militias” to bear arms, but not individuals. This interpretation is nonsense when one understands the choice of words within the circumstances in which they were written.
The Second Amendment text reads as … [visit site to read more]
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