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Andy Weld

Andy Weld is editor of the Blytheville Courier News.

Would the Bill of Rights be ratified today?

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

The current national flap over gun control -- a dialogue that most recently began in reaction to the Newtown, Conn., school massacre -- recently got me thinking about how it came to be that citizens of our country got the right to own guns in the first place. I'm referring, of course, to the Second Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights, added to our Constitution shortly after its ratification in the late 1700s.

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