Abolissons le deuxième amendement (John Paul Stevens)

L'ancien juge de la Cour suprême (il fut nommé par le républicain Gerald Ford en 1975) plaide pour le retrait du deuxième amendement dans le New York Times d'aujourd'hui. Le juge Stevens, à la retraite depuis 2010, a été marqué par les manifestations de la fin de semaine et propose d'aller plus loin qu'un meilleur encadrement, il va jusqu'à proposer l'abrogation du deuxième amendement et ses arguments méritent réflexion.

 "Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “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.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region