Want a gun? Then join the militia

I decided to do what everybody seems to have done before me, actually look up the Second Amendment and read it. To my surprise it's only 27 words long — "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."

To me it's clear that the amendment guarantees a collective rather than an individual right to bear arms.

MIKE HAMIEL

Manteca