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The Second Amendment Is Not Outdated

The Second Amendment Is Not Outdated
A gun store rangemaster shows a customer a shotgun in Las Vegas, in this file photo. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
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A lawyer in Boulder, Colorado, has been buying billboard space to attack the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.
One billboard reads:

IMAGINE HIGHWAYS USING TRAFFIC LAWS WRITTEN IN 1791.

IMAGINE RADIO, TELEVISION, AND INTERNET RUN BY 1791 REGULATIONS.

IMAGINE LIMITING YOURSELF TO MEDICAL CARE AVAILABLE IN 1791

THE SECOND AMENDMENT WAS WRITTEN IN 1791 

THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE NOT ENOUGH

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If you get angry reading this lawyer’s billboard message, please leave her alone. She has a right to freedom of speech and of the press. They are guaranteed to her by the First Amendment—also adopted in 1791. (Because she’s using a medium (a billboard) to communicate her message, her conduct is more properly an expression of freedom of the press than freedom of speech.)
Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
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Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor who is senior fellow in constitutional jurisprudence at the Independence Institute in Denver, authored “The Original Constitution: What It Actually Said and Meant” (3rd ed., 2015). He is a contributor to The Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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