EXCERPT:
OLBERMANN: “We have the Second Amendment, which was designed to keep the federal government from taking away the right of each state to maintain its own militia but which has now been transformed into an excuse for why madmen of whatever heritage or political purpose cannot be stopped from carrying at least 10 long rifles into a hotel room in Las Vegas and setting up a sniper’s nest and killing people. And why a group that enables such massacres, the National Rifle Association, is not branded for what it is, a terrorist organization. ‘The Gun Lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment,’ wrote Richard Nixon’s conservative Chief Justice of the United States Warren Berger, ‘is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies — the militia — would be maintained for the defense of the state. The very language of the Second Amendment refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unfettered right to any kind of weapon he or she desires.’ ‘The Second Amendment doesn’t guarantee the right to have firearms at all.'”