Texas parents upset that high school workbook summarizes the 2nd Amendment the way it SHOULD be interpreted.

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Courtesy of Fox News:  

Parents at a high school near Dallas say the authors of a book on U.S. history misfired when they defined the Second Amendment -- and now one of the book's co-authors says the book is being revised. 

The work book used at Guyer High School in the city of Denton, "The United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination," includes the "summary" definition of the Second Amendment to include the right to "keep and bear arms in a state militia." 

The edited definition is seen by gun-rights advocates as an affront to the Second Amendment, which states in full: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed." 

Parents at the school criticized the book for distorting the definition of the Second Amendment in favor of those opposed to gun rights. 

John J. Newman, the book's co-author, told FoxNews.com that the text of the book was written before the 2008 Supreme Court ruling, District of Columbia v. Heller, which protects individuals' rights to possess firearms. He said the book's only intent was to summarize the Second Amendment and admitted that the current definition is incorrect. But he said a revised and corrected edition is set to be sold in May 2014. 

"There was no devious intention in the definition," Newman said. 

Yeah well I am one who believes that the Founding Fathers ABSOLUTELY meant for the amendment to only protect the militia's right to own and carry weapons, and that if they had ANY idea of how their words would have been twisted and reinterpreted, and the deaths that resulted from those actions, they would have rewritten it much more clearly or stricken the 2nd Amendment altogether.

I feel badly for this book's author as he was really only trying to make the information accessible and understandable. Perhaps he simply forgot that Texans love their guns almost as much they love their first cousins and sisters.

You know maybe if these parents would simply allow that definition to remain in the workbook they could spare one or two of their offspring the horror of having to help staunch the bleeding after one of their Constitutionally protected firearms blows a chunk out of the skull of their best friend.

An outcome, by the way, INFINITELY more likely then having to take up arms against their own government or fend off an attack by an invading force.