A Washington Post reporter argued on Tuesday that conservative groups reinterpreted the Second Amendment to claim individuals have a right to own a gun. Staff writer Amber Phillips explained in an analysis titled "How the Second Amendment was reinterpreted to protect individual rights" that historians claim the amendment’s protection of individual gun rights is a "relatively recent reading" pushed by conservative groups rather than the text of the Second Amendment. Joseph Blocher similarly attributed claims that the amendment protects individual rights "to a relatively recent political push by gun rights groups to reinterpret the Constitution." Phillips concluded with a quote from Saint Joseph’s University professor Susan Liebell suggesting that an upcoming gun case in the Supreme Court could expand gun rights even further. "We have moved to more and more radical interpretation of the Second Amendment," Liebell said.

Source: Washington Post June 01, 2022 05:36 UTC