ACLU: Second Amendment still a "collective right"

According to this article, the ACLU is apparently still insisting that the Second Amendment is a collective, rather than an individual right, despite the Supreme Court's ruling to the contrary.

The American Civil Liberties is getting blasted on its own blog site for holding onto the belief that the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes a collective right for militias to have weapons, even though the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the right applies to individuals.

"Sorry ACLU you lost me," wrote SuperNaut. "I just took the money I had slated to re-up my lapsed ACLU membership and used it to re-up my NRA membership."

Hundreds of comments have been posted in just the first few days of July, almost uniformly condemning the ACLU's explanation of its position on gun rights, which is that individuals don't have them.

"The ACLU interprets the Second Amendment as a collective right. Therefore, we disagree with the Supreme Court's decision in D.C. v. Heller," the page started. "While the decision is a significant and historic reinterpretation of the right to keep and bear arms, the decision leaves many important questions unanswered that will have to be resolved in future litigation, including what regulations are permissible, and which weapons are embraced by the Second Amendment right that the Court has now recognized."

Read some of the comments posted on the ACLU blog at the article link above.

The ACLU couldn't be more wrong on this issue. To think that the Second Amendment is a collective right of "the people" is pure left-wing fantasy. What a way to alienate tens of millions of Americans who might otherwise support their other work.