I would like to point out to Mr. Levin that at that time what they were protecting was the state of the art assault weapon of that day. I believe the dictates of common sense would tell the average man on the street that had the Continental Army carried the M16 assault weapon during the Revolutionary War, it would have been the weapon referred to and protected by our founding fathers. I cannot speak for the rest of my fellow citizens, but I can tell you I do not trust any form of government that does not trust its citizens with firearms. Marvin Elliott Perry Not just weapons of olden day I read the column by Jeffrey Levin concerning the right to bear muskets. I agree, we do have the right to bear muskets, but we also have the right to bear modem rifles, shotguns, pistols, and for that matter, submachine guns.
Laws restricting the latter are in fact unconstitutional.
The constitution does not differentiate and does not freeze its statement to mean the weapons of the day. Just because some kids are running around shooting up schools doesn't mean we lose the right to bear arms. It was put there to enable us to defend our country in times of peril, against foreign enemies, or if the government goes Marxist on us, to fight against it. Or just to defend ourselves from muggers, burglars and even mad school kids. This we cannot do without modern weapons, and the framers of the constitution knew this.