Letter: Second Amendment is clear as mud

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Would Second Amendment supporters please be honest? In a March 8 forum letter Michael Beck states: "The Second Amendment is clear: The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

The Second Amendment actually reads: "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." This is clear as mud to me and although our current activist right-wing court seems to agree with Beck, it would seem open to interpretation.

Too bad the Senate stole a seat so it can't be tested any time soon.

Roger Edwards

West Jordan