Middle School Assignment: Second Amendment Requires Gun Registration

Mikael Thalen storyleak.com A workbook handed out to seventh grade students in Springfield, Ill., states that all Americans must register their firearms in order to have a Second Amendment right. Provided to the Illinois Gun Owners Rights Facebook page by a local parent, the required reading makes several blatantly false statements regarding the right to gun ownership. “This amendment states that people have the right to certain weapons, providing that they register them and they have not been in prison,” the workbook states. Along with an open ended statement regarding the right to “certain weapons,” the assignment also excludes mention that Americans have the right to “keep” and bear arms. The parent, speaking on the condition of anonymity, confirmed the assignment to Storyleak and detailed their child’s initial reaction. “My son was given a workbook at school that is a compilation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. When they covered the 2nd Amendment, he saw that they were stating that only ‘certain guns’ could be owned and that they had to be ‘registered,’ which he knew was false,” the parent said. “He bought this to my attention as he felt it was wrong to teach these things that aren’t true. I’m extremely proud of my son for his actions.” to read more: storyleak.com