Liberty Minute November 21 2013

Professor Mary Penrose of the Texas A&M University School of Law claims that she is ?extremely passionate about? the U.S. Constitution ? except for that vexatious Second Amendment, which she says proves that the document is  archaic and badly in need of drastic revision.

During a symposium on gun control and the Second Amendment at the University of Connecticut School of Law in Hartford, Professor Penrose insisted that the Second Amendment should be repealed. Despite her professed devotion to the Constitution, Penrose said that it is odd that Americans cling to what she described as a document ?driven by 18^th Century concerns? ? such as the ?fear of a standing army,? which is what she describes as the primary motivation behind the Second Amendment.

Insisting that gun violence must be addressed through ?drastic measures,? she says the Second Amendment should be repealed and replaced by a ?states? rights? model that will allow states to decide whether personal firearms ownership should be restricted.

The right to armed self-defense would exist even if the Second Amendment did not. Nothing in the Constitution authorizes the federal government to impose on that right ? and any government that would disarm the citizenry is eminently worthy of being overthrown.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.