What America's gun fanatics won't tell you
Can we please stop pretending that the Second Amendment contains an unfettered right for everyone to buy a gun? It doesn't, and it never has. The claims made by the small number of extremists, before and after the Orlando, Fla., massacre , are based on a deliberate lie.
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution doesn't just say Congress shall not infringe the right to "keep and bear arms." It specifically says that right exists in order to maintain "a well-regulated militia." Even the late conservative Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia admitted those words weren't in there by accident. Oh, and the Constitution doesn't just say a "militia." It says a "well-regulated" militia.
What did the Founding Fathers mean by that? We don't hav