http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/us/06f...amp;oref=slogin

OK, here's the article. Names Lawrence Tribe and Sanford Levinson. Could also include Dershowitz, I suppose. All have begrudgingly admitted the 2nd means what it says. I think Tribe and Dershowitz have been calling for a constitutional amendment to repeal.

The part that bugs me is the spin that there was once this great consensus (presumably, after the oft misunderstood 'Miller') that the 2nd somehow conferred a collective right. For the first 150 plus years of US history there was not one printed opinion or document to support the idea that the 2nd was anything but an individual right.

In the end, the right - like a genie that has escaped from the bottle - will protect itself, if push comes to shove. We all hope this does not happen, of course. Thus, we continue to vote and to write our senators and congressmen.

Sam