Outrage of the Week: Middle school curriculum is teaching that Americans don’t have the right to bear arms
NRA ILA
The Daily Caller
4/15/2013
By NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action
This week’s outrage comes to us from the state of Connecticut–the “Constitution State”–where a father says his son’s middle school curriculum is teaching that Americans don’t have the right to bear arms.
According to a FoxNews.com story, Steven Boibeaux’s son, a student a Northeast Middle School in Bristol, Conn., was given a social studies worksheet titled, “The Second Amendment Today.” The worksheet, published by Instructional Fair, claims that, “The courts have consistently determined that the Second Amendment does not ensure each individual the right to bear arms,” and that, “The courts have never found a law regulating the private ownership of weapons unconstitutional.”
If anyone had bothered to check, they would know that, in 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court historically ruled in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller that the Second Amendment does indeed ensure an individual the right to bear arms, as our founding fathers wrote and intended…
The article continues at The Daily Caller.
H/T Kimberly Morin, “ALWAYS check your kids’ work…”
