Charles Murray: If Liberals Change Second Amendment, It Will Backfire And Militias Will Rise Up (+video)

BILL MAHER: One last issue because we were talking about the Supreme Court, and a retired Supreme Court Justice made some big news this week. John Paul Stevens, remember him on the Court? He talked about the Second Amendment and it’s interesting because this week, Georgia passed this guns everywhere law. And Stevens said something that really warmed my heart because this is what I have been saying. Which is Democrats have to separate themselves in big way from the position in the Republican party, which they don’t.

In fact, the Democrat in Georgia, who is Jimmy Carter’s grandson agreed with the governor who signed the guns everywhere bill, and this is the problem with the Democrats. In many issues, but especially on this one. It’s like, we love guns too. How can you not? You look at a gun, it’s like a puppy or a baby, you just got to love it.

So, John Paul Stevens suggested adding five words to the Second Amendment. So it would read: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms — here are the five words — when serving in the militia shall not be infringed.

This is original intent of the Second Amendment. It was about militias, not about militias.

Read more from Real Clear Politics HERE.

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John Paul Stevens’ ‘Six Amendments’ shows why elections matter

By Cal Thomas.

Honestly, unless you are a big government liberal, how many people think the federal government should have more power than it already exercises over its citizens?

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 94, thinks the Constitution needs at least six amendments in order to bring the country more in line with what he believes is good for us. He outlines them in his new book, Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution. It is a revealing look into liberal thinking and the ideological opposite of radio talk show host Mark Levin’s book, The Liberty Amendments: Restoring the American Republic. More about that in a moment.

Stevens elaborated on his book in an interview with USA Today.

One of his priorities would be to change the Second Amendment. As he writes in his book, “[T]he Second Amendment, which was adopted to protect the states from federal interference with their power to ensure that their militias were ‘well-regulated,’ has given federal judges the ultimate power to determine the validity of state regulations of both civilian and militia-related uses of arms. That anomalous result can be avoided by adding five words to the text of the Second Amendment to make it unambiguously conform to the original intent of its draftsmen. As so amended, it would read:

‘A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms WHEN SERVING IN THE MILITIA shall not be infringed.'”

Read more from this story HERE.