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Originally Posted by willravel
This is Charles Manson. I believe he has been diagnosed with a particularly bad case of anti-social personality disorder, which led to several murders (along with some other really bad things). While he was initially sentenced to death, his sentence was reduced to life without the possibility of parole.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't Charles Manson be guaranteed a gun under your amendment (so long as it's not concealed, of course)? |
I believe that as a prisoner for life, without parole, is certainly going to meet that standard of the 5th amendment of being deprived of that right after due process, especially now that he's in prison.
If you are looking for exact wording and detail as to who does and doesn't have the right, you're going to be looking at an amendment that will span pages, not sentences.
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Originally Posted by willravel
That's what most people think. Still, it does beg the question: would the Second Amendment, in it's current form, really provide the means necessary to state a rebellion?
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It would, save for the hundreds of laws out there, namely the hughes amendment to FOPA86 and some others.
In any case, unless a principled and dedicated supreme court were to suddenly spring up, any new amendment would quickly be reduced to the same circumstances our current one has.