As a member of the House Judiciary Committee I received a lot of e-mails urging me to vote against the gun control bills we considered recently. Many of these e-mails argued, in some form, that the governor's proposals violated the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The writers seemed to feel that the Second Amendment prohibits any restrictions on gun ownership. However, that is simply not how the Second Amendment works. As a threshold matter, there... (GunPolicy.org)