Minnesota's own Louie Anderson wrote a priceless comedy routine about Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that he used to perform back in the 1980s. It all hinged on the limiting clauses to this amendment which relate the right to keep and bear arms in one's home to the sustainence of a militia for public safety. The Second Amendment was written at a time in U.S. History when the state of the art in weapon technology was a musket. Muskets took time to load and fire and reload. Current weapon technology is light years more advanced than the musket. The weaponry we have available to us today screams out for better gun control to protect people in their homes from careless accidents that lead to tragedies far too frequently.
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a case where what appeared to be a very reasonable state gun control law was overturned on the grounds it violated the Second Amendment by a U.S. Circuit Ct. of Appeals. I am trying to remain hopeful and optimist that the U.S. Supreme Court will get this ruling right. Everyone, (including the NYTimes Op Ed writers) will be watching this case closely. Much is at stake--not the least of which are many lives of people who are killed by gun accidents on a daily basis.
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