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"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."
Whoever wrote this clearly needed a professional editor. (Yes, I've seen the other drafts.) It is unclear phrasing and should not therefore be read literally. It needs historical and cultural context. It needs reinterpretation. It needs changing. It's about time to amend the amendment. It seems open to widespread abuse.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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