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The amendments which make up the Bill of Rights were added to the U.S. Constitution to serve as a limit upon governmental intrusion into the fundamental rights of the American people. These amendments recognized certain rights which were considered inalienable and fundamental to the existence of all individuals.
Included among these rights are the freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion. However, one of the most important individual rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights is commonly overlooked in modern constitutional studies… the Second Amendment right of the people to keep and bear arms.
Although great advances in the understanding of the Second Amendment have come about in recent years, there is still an area where the study of the Second Amendment is, perhaps, most important and yet extremely stifled… in America's law schools.
Today in law schools around the country the study of the Second Amendment is severely neglected. On the few occasions that the right to bear arms is brought up, misinformed professors (often with a political agenda) try to explain that the right is not an individual right (as a simple, straightforward reading of the amendment might suggest) but rather a right of a state to create and arm a militia.
These professors rarely go on to explain or justify their conclusions which leaves the students with no better of an understanding of regarding this liberty.
The Second Amendment Legal Studies Association is dedicated to the goal of bringing the study of the Second Amendment to the nation's law schools. Regardless of which side of the argument you are on, if you are intellectually honest you will agree that more discussion, analysis, and research is how we learn more about this subject.
As our mission statement says "It is through robust, wide open debate that the true meaning of this important liberty is best shown." We at S.A.L.S.A. simply want to facilitate the discussion of the Second Amendment.
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