May 27, 2019 Monday
Bedtime Story
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
…conciliation, are generally agreed that
the System should be revised.
But they wish the revisal to be carried no
farther than to supply additional guards for liberty.”
The First Amendment to the United States
Constitution was adopted on December 15, 1791 as one of the ten amendments that
constitute the Bill of Rights.
The Second Amendment to the United States
Constitution was also adopted on the same date as a part of the Bill of Rights
and it is the one that protects an individual’s right to keep and bear arms.
It is this amendment that till date is
subjected to the greatest academic inquiry and is of utmost judicial interest
and scrutiny because of the recurrent senseless mass shootings and gun-related
deaths and injuries that plague the nation.
It is essentially around this Second
Amendment to the United States Constitution and not the guns or gun-related
deaths per se around which the entire debate regarding gun control and gun
rights revolves.
The amendment that was ratified by the
states and authenticated by the Secretary of State read as follows:
“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.”
It is simply a most obvious anachronism
that comes from the experiences and social conditioning of an era of early
English settlers in a new and remote land who needed arms for one of the
several reasons listed below:
(1.) Owning and bearing arms allowed the
band of settlers to organize their own local militia or protection force
(2.) Owning an bearing arms allowed the new
settlers to participate directly in law enforcement
(3.) Owning and bearing arms protected and
safeguarded small settlers against tyrannical local governments
(4.) Owning and bearing arms allowed to
fight and repel invaders
(5.) Owning and bearing arms by the
landholders and slave owners allowed them to suppress revolts of the slaves of
the kind that occurred aboard La Amistad
(6.) Owning and bearing arms was the most
fruitful way of ensuring self-defense
The conditions in today’s America could not
be any more unalike from those times when the amendment was necessitated and
yet since the amendment is enshrined in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights
it is sacrosanct that no judiciary or government has been able to dodge around it
no matter what the count of domestic gun killings is.
So these amendments incorporated into the
Constitution were a compromise made by the Founding Fathers to the fears of the
anti-Federalists of bestowing almost divine-monarch like powers to the
President of the Federal Government.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
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physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
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