The Right to Bear Arms and Concealed Carry
The Right to Bear Arms with Concealed Carry
Humans naturally assume the right to be able to protect and defend their own person. This is a country built upon protecting the well-being of its people, and, more so protecting its people’s freedom, specifically the freedom to keep and bear arms. We are free to defend ourselves against others acting outside their lawful boundaries. Crime is obviously a problem in society, and we have laws in place to discourage behaviors that people agree on as wrong or that are considered to be bad for a peaceful society, but laws cannot change people. There will always be people out there who break those laws and pose threats to other citizens. Unfortunately, these incidents happen all too often and can end fatally for innocent, defenseless citizens. This is seen not only in the devastating mass shootings that we see and hear about on national news of defenseless people dying but every day from smaller scale incidents where people are shot, raped, assaulted, killed, robbed, or injured and do not have sufficient means of defending themselves in the process of someone else acting violently against the law. These incidents happen repeatedly in our society and there is not sufficient focus on what practical action steps can be taken to stop them much less hinder them. People must easily and properly be allowed an effective way of protecting and defending themselves against harm. Guns are a big part of this nation and always have been. They are owned by millions of Americans, because citizens in America posses the right in this country to have guns. It is unreasonable to think that America should or even could get rid of all the citizen-owned firearms that we have today, which would not effectively impact criminals with guns and would take away one of our traditional rights in this country. Instead, firearm possession should be encouraged by those who want to exercise this right, and they should be able to carry personal concealed
Humans naturally assume the right to be able to protect and defend their own person. This is a country built upon protecting the well-being of its people, and, more so protecting its people’s freedom, specifically the freedom to keep and bear arms. We are free to defend ourselves against others acting outside their lawful boundaries. Crime is obviously a problem in society, and we have laws in place to discourage behaviors that people agree on as wrong or that are considered to be bad for a peaceful society, but laws cannot change people. There will always be people out there who break those laws and pose threats to other citizens. Unfortunately, these incidents happen all too often and can end fatally for innocent, defenseless citizens. This is seen not only in the devastating mass shootings that we see and hear about on national news of defenseless people dying but every day from smaller scale incidents where people are shot, raped, assaulted, killed, robbed, or injured and do not have sufficient means of defending themselves in the process of someone else acting violently against the law. These incidents happen repeatedly in our society and there is not sufficient focus on what practical action steps can be taken to stop them much less hinder them. People must easily and properly be allowed an effective way of protecting and defending themselves against harm. Guns are a big part of this nation and always have been. They are owned by millions of Americans, because citizens in America posses the right in this country to have guns. It is unreasonable to think that America should or even could get rid of all the citizen-owned firearms that we have today, which would not effectively impact criminals with guns and would take away one of our traditional rights in this country. Instead, firearm possession should be encouraged by those who want to exercise this right, and they should be able to carry personal concealed
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