The Lost Amendment Essay

The Lost Amendment Although the Second Amendment was adopted in 1791 there are still two different interpretations to whether the amendment refers to all individual rights to bear arms or strictly the right to bear arms when forming militias. The Second Amendment is an amendment that is a part of the first ten amendments that are referred to as the Bill of Rights. Adopted in 1791 these amendments protect the citizens from the gov’t in order to prevent a tyrannical gov’t. The New Yorker article calls the second amendment “The Lost Amendment” because of the very little attention it has received ever since it was adopted and also suggest that this is because the arguments that are used when dealing with this are bad. One interpretation says that the second amendment is only referring to the right to bear arms when forming militias to defend against tyranny while the other interpretation argues that the second amendment refers to individual rights to bear arms for everyone. The language used in the second amendment has a lot to do with the different interpretations as it reads, “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”. The first part, “A well
Another point one of the debaters points out is the language used that plainly states that individuals can have guns. On the other hand some of the debaters say the Second Amendment was referring to only people who had an intention of forming a militia for common self-defense and permitting them to have guns. They argue that the whole purpose was to prevent tyranny and to allow the states to create militias to fight the gov’t with if