I can read the 2nd Amendment too

Several years ago I read a research paper by an educator who had 800 fourth graders read the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution. He then tested their understanding of the amendment and found that 87 percent of those fourth graders said that you needed to belong to a well regulated militia in order to have and bear arms.

This piece of the Constitution was meant to insure a militia in times of national, or state emergency. It was not meant as permission for a bunch of gun nuts to intimate society into allowing just anyone to own a gun, to intimate judges and politicians into not reading the constitution as written. I often wonder if those who worship their guns can read and understand simple English to the degree that a fourth grader is able to.

I think that many gun owners love the guns more then they love God, they act that way. They need to remember that a person with a gun is infinitely more likely to use a gun (mostly on family members and neighbors) than a person without a gun ( who can’t shoot anyone). That’s easy math. Oh I forgot they can’t read or don’t understand what they read. At present our society is clearly held hostage by these very bright people who can’t read or understand what they read even at a fourth grade level.

This story was originally published June 28, 2017 at 5:54 PM with the headline "I can read the 2nd Amendment too."