The right to carry a concealed firearm is guaranteed by the Second Amendment of the Constitution. This right alone should be enough justification for the Legislative Branch of government to mandate all states to abide by this constitutional right of its citizens. The law enforcement within each state alone cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens. Responsible citizens should have the right to protect their families and the states should not impede on this right by not allowing concealed carry (O’Shea, 2012, p. 585). Recently in Wisconsin, there was a good news story displaying the necessity for concealed carry.
This is the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights which 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” (1791). Throughout various political systems, the one constant of a tyrannical government has been the disarming of citizens. Thomas Jefferson once famously said: “No man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against the tyranny in government.” The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1791, as a direct result of the Revolutionary War; without access to weapons, the colonists would not have been able to defeat the British troops (Lunger). When the government begins to regulate which guns we can use, how many bullets we can load, the procedure used to purchase a gun, with background checks and waiting periods, it is only a matter of time before they take guns away entirely.
The Second Amendment interpretation is flawed by In Molly Ivins's article, "Ban the Things. Ban Them All." She supports the Second Amendment, and she points out the main objective of signing this document is the authorization of a group of individuals that's trained to carry fire arms, even though they are not part of government. They may carry arms for security purposes in order to maintain a free state, and that this group of individuals have the right to keep and carry arms. The authors' main argument, is against individuals that are not trained to carry arms, nor do these individual carry arms to maintain a free state.
America has forever been known as the land of the free and home of the brave (National Anthem). A right that has been around since 1787, stated in the Constitution is the right to bear arms (archives.gov). People have diverging opinions when it comes to Americans and their gun rights. Although there is a strong argument against the gun laws in America, owning of guns is a political, personal, and a practical right. The Constitution written in 1787 was the first to declare Americans right to bear arms.
This is a non-profit organization founded in 1871 that advocates for the rights of private citizens to bear arms, self-defense, police training, firearm safety and also hunting. Jutha also argues that the NRA considers gun ownership to be a civil right, therefore, it considers itself as the largest and oldest serving civil rights group in the whole of America. NRA is lobbying for gun rights and it’s of the thought that; every citizen has the right to keep and bear firearms for their defense plus also as way for promoting individual liberties. NRA argues that victims who are not armed are more exposed to their attackers while armed victims are in a good position to protect their lives and overcome life threatening situations (Rogers, 2013). Since law enforcers are not enough to ensure safety for every citizens, citizens should be allowed to protect themselves.
Caleb Robbs Mrs. Hodgdon English III 2 May 2013 Gun control What do people think about when they hear gun control? Do thing about overruling or safety? The second amendment allows people the right to bear arms, it also allows people to own guns for self-defense and hunting. The government should not try and change the 2nd Amendment. They should not be able to take away our rights that were given to us long ago.
An Argument For Gun Rights Everyone should have the right to own a gun. Forget the little fact that the Second Amendment grants us the right to own a firearm for one second. Most of us can agree that a gun is a useful tool. After all, law enforcement and the military swear by theirs. It also doesn’t make sense to blame an inanimate object rather than the individual behind it and the reasons why gun violence occurs.
A Shot at Gun Control In 1776, our Constitution was written by our forefathers. The 2nd Amendment, “The Right to Bear Arms”, was constructed deliberately so that all citizens had the right to carry weapons and protect themselves against a government that could become to powerful or tyrannical. In the years that followed, the creation of the Constitution, the 2nd amendment was essential and fundamental to the growth of our country as a whole, but now over 200 years later the 2nd amendment has become fundamentally flawed in current modern society. Most citizens nowadays don’t carry firearms for protection and for the use of sustenance. Citizens today use firearms for more devious actions.
According to certain articles the issue of gun control can be traced to Roman Empire whereby during times when peace was prevailing there should not be any standing armies and this was also incorporated in the British and American constitution. Throughout many years there have been widespread discussions and arguments regarding gun control, there are three main themes: ethics – to balance the right of an individual to carry a firearm for safety purposes and to the safety of the general public, interpretations of the second amendment which protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms which was adopted in 1791 and finally does gun ownership increase or reduce
This lobbyist group considers the right to acquire and possess guns as a freedom issue among the civilians. It has been evident that GOA is against compromising and accepting the status quo. GOA has committed itself in building a network of attorneys, who will help in challenging the strict gun control laws in courts. Furthermore, the lobbyist group has frozen senators, who support bills to strengthen background checks and enhance penalties for those individuals purchasing guns illegally. GOA empowers those individuals with a strong background of gun rights.