C hange One Word of fhe 2nd Amendment

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January 7, 2016

Change One Word

A letter by

Harley L. Sachs

Everyone knows the Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms. What if we change one word? Change “right” to “Responsibility” and what do you get? You get every citizen required to be armed.

There is precedent for this. In Israel every citizen, with some exceptions, male and female, is required to serve in the IDF. In Switzerland every able-bodied male must serve in the Home Guard and keep his rifle at home with ammunition. When I registered for the draft I had to carry my registration card at all times.

Of course, we cannot have sexual discrimination in the USA, so every eighteen year old, male or female citizen would have to register for the militia as provided for in the second amendment.

Result: every able-bodied male or female US citizen at eighteen would be issued an assault rifle, and trained to use it. I wonder how the NRA and gun lovers will feel when every Afro-American, every Hispanic, every Muslim citizen of the United State would be required to be in the militia and issued an assault rifle. The gun makers will get richer and the NRA will be pleased. With an armed militia, no terrorist would dare attack.

It’s only one word to change.