Editor,
In reference to the Second Amendment, has there ever been a legal definition of what specifically constitutes “arms?” Perhaps it is time to put one in place. Remember that at the time the amendment was approved, arms were muskets and pistols, not automatic assault rifles.
Gary Lynes
Burlingame
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(1) comment
Understand that line of thought...they were the latest and greatest weapons of mass destruction of that time
Flint cutting tools became weapons when used on other humans...
Hand thrown rocks and the advent of the sling shot (not the 'Y' of a tree branch, but the leather sling. Bet they thought the end of the world was at hand back then...BC that is
Ditto the transition from brass, to bronze swords...to steel swords...the end of the world was at hand
Ditto when the bow and arrow were invented.
Ditto when the cross bow was invented
Then ditto when black powder was invented...to the invention of using that rapidly expanding gases in a close tube pushing a projectile out the other end...AKA Musket of which you reference
Notice they are all inanimate objects that do nothing on their own until a human turns them into weapons. This applies today, but do agree that many of the military weapons has no business in civilian hands. Those should be banned and that the process to obtain a fire arm should be one of the hardest things to pass, but do believe our forefathers were correct with the Second Amendment and leave it alone
Then take any other item of The Constitution as only in 'their time' is out of context using your line of thought... 'They' did not consider women as equals, no voting rights for women. Ditto on most of the positioning of values/thoughts/etc of today compared to back then... Shall we then toss the other items of The Constitution?
IMHO, they, the writers of The Constitution were mindful of the future and made sure to word it with timeless attributes...
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