Let’s untangle the Second Amendment

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🗓️ 14 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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It wasn’t until 2008 that the US Supreme Court established what a confusing sentence in the Constitution really meant for gun ownership. Sean Rameswaram reported on District of Columbia v. Heller for Radiolab’s More Perfect. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	No, well, you got a second.
0:02.0	Yeah.
0:03.0	Great, because I want to redo what I think is the most confusing sentence in the history of this country.
0:07.0	Hit me!
0:08.0	A well-regulated militia, comma,
0:11.0	being necessary to the security of a free state,
0:15.0	comma, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,
0:19.0	comma, shall not be infringed, period.
0:23.0	It's a lot of commas.
0:25.0	So many commas,
0:27.0	a few subjects, finally a period.
0:31.0	This second amendment of ours,
0:34.0	the root of this entire gun rights versus gun control debate,
0:40.0	it's a doozy, no-el.
0:43.0	And you specifically asked if we could untangle it as it pertains to the big Supreme Court case
0:51.0	on the Second Amendment District of Columbia V. Heller.
0:54.0	Yeah, I wanted to know who Heller is.
0:56.0	So what we're going to do on today's explained.
0:58.0	Nice.
0:59.0	Alright, today explained, I'm Sean Rommas-Furham.
1:09.0	And before I worked here at Vox, I worked at WNYC in New York,
1:14.0	where I worked on a show called More Perfect in collaboration with the Good People at Radio Lab.
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