FIREARMS LAW & SECOND AMENDMENT SYMPOSIUM NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE To fulfill the promise of the Declaration of Independence, the authors of the U.S. Constitution and its Bill of Rights made it clear that individual rights were paramount. The Bill of Rights, wrote James Madison, was "calculated to secure the personal rights of the people."
Yet when the U.S. Department of Justice issued its exhaustive 2004 memorandum on the Second Amendment, concluding without reservation that "the Second Amendment secures a personal right of individuals," the national media was apoplectic. So politicized had this right become that it had been clearly set apart and segregated as different from other rights guaranteed to the "people" as in the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th, and 14th amendments.
To examine the Second Amendment in a scholarly and in-depth forum, prestigious constitutional scholars recently convened to explore issues past and present, pro and con, covering this controversial topic.
This first ever "Firearms Law & the Second Amendment Symposium" was hosted by Law Students for the Second Amendment, at George Mason University School of Law along with The NRA Foundation and the NRA Civil Rights Defense Fund. The symposium was filmed in its entirety and is now available for you to view on-line. To see this ground-breaking and informative symposium, please visit:
www.nraila.org/ActionCenter/GrassRootsActivism.aspx?ID=29.
