Letter To The Editor: About Farmington

By BOB BOURQUE
Los Alamos

So Farmington is a “Second Amendment sanctuary” (link). Here is what the Founders most likely meant about that Amendment:

“A well-regulated militia, being necessary ‘to keep the British, and slave rebellions, at bay’, the right of The People to keep and bear ‘single-shot, muzzle-loaded, smooth-bore muskets’ shall not be infringed.”  

“The People” is plural, as in “We The People” seen at the top of the US Constitution.

So it means that the Farmington government could have a “well-regulated militia”, nothing more. The Amendment says nothing about private individuals having military-style weapons, or any weapons for that matter. 

The Second Amendment is an anachronism that has been so badly twisted. It needs to be abandoned.

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