The Second Amendment — and a Copy Editor’s Suggestions for Improvement

Barry Lyons
10 min readJun 5, 2019
Credit: Mike Peters

I want to approach the Second Amendment as something that’s just landed on my desk for a final review. We can discuss the back story later of how this Amendment came to be, but right now I’m only interested in reading this single sentence — the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution — as copy to see if it’s ready to go.

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Barry Lyons

Not a fan of sports or religion. I guess that makes me a bad American.