Challenging the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution as a Sacred Text June 14, 2020 1 min read Photo by Marcin Wichary, Wikimedia Commons The United States tends to glorify its Founders and try to maintain a strange temporal connection to them. By John McNamara 052020-27-Guns-Second-Amendment-Constitution Originally published by the European Journal of American Studies 12:2 (Summer 2017) under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Generic license. About the Author Matthew McIntosh Administrator Visit Website View All Posts What do you feel about this? 0% Love 0% Funny 0% Wow 0% Sad 0% Angry Post navigation Previous: Constitutional and Biblical Fundamentalism Are Equally DangerousNext: Aerial Warfare during World War One Related Stories The Language of Purge: Rhetoric, Fear, and the Machinery of Violence in the French Revolution September 15, 2025 Words as Weapons: Rhetoric and Embedded Violence on the Far Right from Past to Present September 15, 2025 A Fractured Mirror: The Evergreen High School Shooting and the Allure of White Supremacy September 15, 2025