Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140530:19:27:00
Absolute right for private citizens to have guns pro protect themselves is not what the founders intended. >> it is striking when you look at the debate that produced the second amendment, the real one, not the one in our imagination. the original debate was about the militias. and the reason the -- they put it in, the constitution, was to protect the 13 state militias that were actually made up of citizen soldiers. not like what we have now. not like the national guard. all men and eventually all white men were required to be in the militia for their entire adult life, and required to own a g...