What does RTKBA stand for?

The NRA says President Barack Obama's first high court nominee has a hostile view of the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms.

Not only is Barack Obama not in favor of gay rights, he's in favor of watering down a whole bunch of existing rights and privileges, such as the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, as well as the expectation of the people of this nation to be able to work and succeed without being punished.

No longer will American citizens be required to leave their right to self-defense at the gates of a national park," says Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) chair Alan Gottlieb.

That clause has long been held to mean that the right to keep and bear arms belongs to the militia, not individual citizens.

``It's better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it,'' said Joe Waldron, executive director of the Washington State-based Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

Even gun advocates support this version of the bill, including Snohomish County Sheriff Rick Bart and Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.

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In the law journals if not yet in media of mass circulation, the Second Amendment has captured the attention of scholars, including some of the most eminent and respectable in the field, who find, somewhat to their own surprise as they reflect upon the matter for the first time, that the private right to keep and bear arms is very much in character with the Bill of Rights as a whole and with the thinking of the Framers of the Constitution.