ro-gun control advocates believe this right has nothing to do with individuals, only a well regulated Militia. The NRA and many others view this piece of legislation in a different light. They believe that it does lend to interpretation on the individual level. While many scholars have been reported to argue for this Amendment as a collective right, the NRA says such an interpretation is laughable:
The collective right interpretation is farcical and flies in the face of the nation’s most prestigious constitutional experts such as Lawrence Tribe, Akhil Reed Amar, William Van Alstyne, and Sanford Levinson. In the last decade, dozens of law review articles have been written by the nation’s foremost Constitutional scholars and historians. All but a few, and those in minor publications, support the traditional understanding of the right to arms as an individual right protected by the Constitution. University of Tennessee’s Glen Harlan Reynolds summed it up by saying that scholars adhering to an individual rights interpretation, “dominate the academic literature on the Second Amendment almost completely,” and the verdict that the Second Amendment is an individual rights is “the mainstream scholarly interpretation.”
The school shooting tragedy at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, represented the final straw in the backs of pro-gun control advocates who blame these types of killings on the lack of stringent gun control measures. These kinds of thoughts were further transmitted by the media who played into the fears, emotions, and legitimate concern of most Americans over the tragedy and many others like it preceding and postdating it in schools and the workplace. The NRA was outraged over a CBS special that aired during a “Reality Check” segment on the CBS Nightly News. The show claimed that the Second Amendment right is not an individual right. According to James J. Baker, the executive director of...