JULY 4, 2022 BY MERRITT CLIFTON 4 COMMENTS

Why the Second Amendment does not protect either hunting animals or self-defense

(Beth Clifton collage)

The only form of either “hunting” or “self defense” that concerned the 2nd Amendment authors was catching fugitive slaves & quelling slave revolts

No part of the U.S. Constitution seems better known to hunters and other gun owners, or is more vehemently defended by pro-hunting and pro-gun organizations, than the single sentence that is the whole of the Second Amendment:

“A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”

Rabbit hunting with a ferret and hounds, painted by Gaston Pheobus, the Count of Foix and Viscount of Bearn, circa 1387-1391.

Yet the Second Amendment includes no mention of either hunting or a right to self-defense, either direct or implicit.

Hunting…