At its most benign, the political divide gouged by the Second Amendment separates city dwellers—to whom handguns are the choice of urban predators—from rural sportsmen who take long-arms into the woods. I’d like to think these two camps could learn to agree to disagree—each conceding the legitimacy of the other’s interests and the legitimacy of local laws that accommodate them.
And the NRA is right. The Second Amendment says: “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.” There’s no mention of a right to venison.
She answered her own question: “Of course it is—and we can.”
