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Justice Stevens Cites ‘The Interpretation Of The Second Amendment’ As The One Thing He Would Change About The Legal System | Three years ago, the Supreme Court held for the first time that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own firearms and not simply a collective right for states to form militias. In an interview with Time Magazine’s Belinda Luscombe, retired Justice John Paul Stevens cites this decision as the one thing he would change if he could “fix one thing about the American judicial system.” According to Stevens, “the court got that quite wrong. Gun policy should be handled by legislatures and by states, not by federal judges appointed for life.” Stevens also criticizes the “so-called war on drugs,” which in some cases requires “penalties are so disproportionate that they could well violate the Eighth Amendment.”