Published: Sept. 19, 2013 at 5:39 PM<\/p>\n
DENTON, Texas, Sept. 19 (UPI) -- Officials with a Texas school district said a U.S. history book with a misleading summary of the Second Amendment is not a primary text. <\/p>\n
The Denton Independent School District book, \"U.S. History: Preparing for Advanced Placement Exam,\" summarizes the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution as \"The people have the right to keep and bear arms in a state militia,\" KDAF-TV, Dallas, reported Thursday. <\/p>\n
The Second Amendment actually reads, \"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.\" <\/p>\n
Some residents said they were shocked by the book's interpretation. <\/p>\n
\"That really puts it in a light that people have the right to bear arms only in a militia setting, and that's not the intent,\" Rich Wallace said. <\/p>\n
Denton ISD spokeswoman Sharon Cox said the book is not the primary text for the class, but rather \"a supplement instructional aid.\" <\/p>\n
Cox said instructors \"are teaching the amendments from the primary source, the U.S. Constitution and its Amendments, and from the classroom textbook, 'American Pageant.'\" <\/p>\n
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