Letter: The Second Amendment is archaic, should be repealed

Has anyone taken the time to really investigate why the Second Amendment was inserted into the Bill of Rights? It was designed to form and protect militias.

The founding fathers were afraid of standing armies and also wished to assuage the slave owners who thought slaves would revolt. We no longer have militias, and indeed we do have a standing army. The shall not be infringed part of the Second Amendment was designed to prevent anyone from denying the right to bear arms as a part of forming the militias. Those militias were to be regulated.

Does anyone think that if the founding fathers were to be transported to our time they would be in favor of what is going on today? I submit that they would be horrified. I also submit it is time to repeal the Second Amendment and rewrite it. It has been so misinterpreted by so many. The biggest organization that compounds the confusion over the Second Amendment is the NRA. Shame on you, NRA, to foster a gun climate such as we have in the U.S.

Roger Daugherty

Flora

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