Today's Daily News cover for 3rd anniversary of Newtown CT shooting

[deathrind]

121. I understand your point...

And the writer could have done a much better job of wording that paragraph or at least tying into the reason for the wording that is used.

I believe the point the writer was trying to convey is that as a society we have evolved slavery is no longer the norm and is now looked upon with disdain and is a non-removable stain on our history. Also that technically we have evolved as well that we no longer light a candle to light a room (out of necessity) when the sun goes down, we simply flip the switch.

Metaphorically speaking it was not the best way to start the paragraph but the point remains. That the second amendment as written is out of date with today's world and needs to evolve. There are other amendments that fall into the same category as being outdated such as the 3rd amendment, granted there could be an extreme case where soldiers need to be quartered into a person home but that would be a very extreme case and not likely to happen short of some catastrophic event. Other amendments are today as valid as they were when written the 15th for example. Not that the entire document is invalid.