re: #477 Wendya

Many of us feel the 2nd amendment is a crystal clear assertion of the rights of citizens to keep and bear arms

It actually says the right of the People, meaning all individuals everywhere. The supreme Court agreed that baring the ownership of firearms by individuals is unconstitutional. The unfortunate nature of DC not being a state apparently exempts it from the 14th Amendment, and the Heller decision isn’t binding across the States.

However, the language of that amendment is far from clear. It is in fact much less clear than the language of the article posted from the stimulus. There are also two versions of the 2nd Amendment, with different punctuation, which is in itself an indictment that the clerk wasn’t able to determine if the language regarding militia and the People were serial statements independent of each other, or was a single statement.