Concerning the meaning of the 2nd amendment, gun control activists look at specific parts of the text and try to define the whole meaning from those individual sections. However, to accurately decipher the meaning of the amendment, one needs to look at the text as a whole, as well as the wording in other amendments and documents from the same time period. By examining other documents and the context they are written in, one is able to fully understand the writing style in which the 2nd amendment was written.
