KEN STREMSKY DISCUSSES AMENDMENT TWO AND THE MILITIA

                  Amendment Two of the United States Constitution 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." 

                  The Second Amendment does not give a definition of Militia. 

                  The Second Amendment does not say that an individual has the 
                  right to keep and bear arms. 

                  Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary on page 753 has the 
                  following definitions for militia 

                  "1. a part of the organized armed forces of a country liable 
                  to call only in emergency" 

                  "2. the whole body of able-bodied male citizens declared by 
                  law as being subject to call to military service" 

                  Congress has the ability to say what the Militia is comprised 
                  of. 

                  Article One, Section 8 of the United States Constitution says 
                  Congress has "To Make Rules for the Government and Regulation 
                  of the land and naval Forces; 

                  To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws 
                  of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions; 

                  To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the 
                  Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be 
                  employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the 
                  states respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the 
                  Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline 
                  prescibed by Congress." 

                  Article One, Section 8 of the United States Constitution also 
                  gives Congress the power "To regulate Commerce with foreign 
                  Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian 
                  Tribes." 

                  Congress has the ability to say who may be part of the Militia 
                  and who may not be part of the Militia. Congress has the 
                  ability to decide how to arm the Militia. Congress has the 
                  ability to discipline members of the Militia. Congress has the 
                  ability to say who may own guns and who may not own guns. 
                  Congress may say people who have criminal records may not own 
                  guns. Congress may say that people have to be a certain age to 
                  own some types of guns. 

                  Congress has the ability to say which types of guns may be 
                  sold in the United States of America and who may own them 
                  because Congress has the ability to arm the Militia and 
                  regulate Commerce. 

                  Congress has the ability to say which types of ammunition may 
                  be sold in the United States of America and who may own the 
                  ammunition because Congress has the ability to arm the Militia 
                  and regulate Commerce. 

                  Congress has the ability to impose waiting periods because of 
                  its ability "To make Rules fo the Government and Regulation of 
                  the land and naval Forces" and its ability to regulate 
                  commerce. 

                  I think Congress should allow some people to be exempt from 
                  waiting periods for particular reasons. Example: If a person 
                  is being stalked and/or attacked violently and/or has been 
                  threatened with physical violence, Congress should make sure 
                  the person may not have to wait for a waiting period to end 
                  before the person may own a gun. 

                  I do not believe it is ethical to say that women of a certain 
                  age may not be members of the Militia if men of a certain age 
                  are members of the Militia.