David Hogg, a senior at Harvard University, recently tweeted that, after talking with "a lot" of history and law professors, he had concluded that the Second Amendment "was created to protect state militias like the national guard."
Hoggs tweet was immediately pounced upon the the likes of the NRA here and here, pointing out how erroneously informed he was.
I have nothing to add except to say that the Bill of Rights has always and uniformly been understood as a declaration of personal rights. If Gun Prohibitionists want to misundersand it that is their business, but their mental operations have no basis in reality.
What I find disturbing is that someone can study at the nation's top academic institution and bleat such fundamentally misinformed nonsense. I find it more disturbing if in fact he did indeed imbibe this intellectual swill from anyone in the university's faculty. If so, the standard of learning at Harvard has sunk to the level of Twitter.
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