Mandate This!
Mandate This! Robert E. Wright Do the people who want to mandate masks and vaccines realize that their arguments apply even more strongly to firearms, at least in America? To see this, consider the Second Amendment, which through the doctrine of selective incorporation through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, applies to state governments . It 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. The main clause is clear as day: The government shall not infringe on the right of the people to own and wield firearms. Its exact meaning in terms of policy is disputed and currently under the Supreme Court’s review, but an increasing number of states have taken it to mean what the Founders did: that governments cannot heavily tax or otherwise regulate firearms ownership or transportation. They can enforce laws forbidding people from shooting their guns into the air or in