the united states-“...the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” That is why gun control violates the second amendment. “By restricting gun ownership only to law enforcement officers and the military‚ the government violates individuals’ rights to possess firearms that they might need to defend their basic freedoms.” When the Founding Fathers wrote the Bill of Rights they knew that giving the government our guns would be the equivalent of tearing the constitution in half
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The Second Amendment states “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. Every person has a different view on the Second Amendment. Is it a legitimate right or has it already fulfilled its purpose? I believe in the right as it has been established‚ however it needs provisions. A rising conflict in the United States is the right to bear arms. You’re either pro-Second Amendment or anti-Second Amendment
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BUS230 23 April 2013 Gun Control & The Second Amendment The second amendment states “A well regulated militia‚ being necessary to the security of a free state‚ the right to the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed.” To an average person this means that anyone at anytime should be able to possess a gun without being questioned. However‚ if you interpret the amendment based on vocabulary I believe this means that a trained group of people who have the countries best interest at
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The Second Amendment; Gun Rights versus Gun Control Our government is involved in a balancing act which deals with gun rights versus gun control. O’Connor explains that “There has been a longstanding dispute about whether the Second Amendment had been written to assure for the preservation of a well-trained militia‚ or whether the right to own a weapon also extended to ownership for private use” (110). One side believes the Second Amendment was written to form a militia during the early years
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interpret the Second Amendment and whether or not we should have gun control. With the Second Amendment specifically grants that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms‚ shall not be infringed." The controversy of it being that in the Second Amendment doesn’t specify who "the people" are. This being said it leaves room for the legislative bodies and court to pass laws and interpretations that influence the way this Amendment is applied and enforced. Along with the Bill of Rights‚ the Second Amendment
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In The second amendment is a recipe for police killings Michael Wood explains how the Second amendment is a danger to police officers. Wood used the shootings in Baton Rouge as an example of how the Second amendment‚ which grants Americans the right to be armed‚ is a threat to police officers due to the easy access everyone has to all different types of weapons‚ guns especially. Anyone can simply walk into a store and purchase a gun‚ of course there is a process you are required to go through before
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Ownership a Right? Ed. Kelly Doyle. San Diego: Greenhaven Press‚ 2005. At Issue. Rpt. from "The Second Amendment Under Fire: The Uses of History and the Politics of Gun Control." http://historymatters.gmu.edu. 2001. Opposing Viewpoints in Context. Web. 25 Feb. 2014. In this article‚ Saul Cornell associate professor in the Department of History at Ohio State University‚ claims that the Second Amendment was originally understood to protect an individual’s right to gun ownership remains historically
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The Second Amendment: A Threat to Civilized People? Gun control has recently created a massive uproar throughout the United States because of the recent‚ and sincerely unfortunate‚ Sandy Hook school shooting that occurred last December. In response to this tragedy‚ Democratic leaders have been attempting to capitalize on the incident and push forward their respective agenda of limiting gun rights. As one can imagine‚ there are a surfeit of opinions on the subject‚ but despite this fact‚ I have come
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Right to Bear Arms The Second Amendment reflects the right of all Americans to own weapons for a legal purpose‚ such as self-defense in the home. It also recognizes the need for weapons to ensure safety for the citizens and keep a well-regulated militia. The prefatory clause refers to the concept of the militia being allowed to bear arms for the safety of the state. The operative clause is very controversial‚ as it discussed the average citizens ability to own a weapon. The District of Columbia
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Amendment I: Freedom of speech No law pass by congress will disallow freedom of speech or establishment of religion Amendment II: Right to bear arms Grants the right of gun ownership for purposes that include self defense Amendment III: Quartering Soldiers Soldiers cannot live in a citizen’s house without their permission during wartime and peacetime Amendment IV: Prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures Protection against unreasonable searches and seizures of homes and property and any search/arrest
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