If one person does not feel that owning firearms is right for them, they don’t have to buy them, but they should not attempt to tell someone else that because they don’t want a gun, the other person shouldn’t have one either. Most importantly, the second amendment must be preserved. There are those who feel since the wording on the bill of rights says to “form a well-armed militia” and since America has a fine full time fighting force the need for a militia is no longer present, and they would have a pretty good argument. But reflecting back on the George Washington’s letter in the Federalist papers, and the Supreme Court ruling, the right to keep and bear arms is about so much more than being able to stand up an army. An unarmed people can more easily lose their freedoms, without fear of the people rising up and fighting back, a tyrannical government can easily limit, if not totally eliminate the right to free speech, the right to a jury trial, the right of reasonable privacy and so on. Or to be more blunt, without the fear of the people standing up and fighting back, they can take any and all our freedoms, at which point, they can easily shift into a full communist style
If one person does not feel that owning firearms is right for them, they don’t have to buy them, but they should not attempt to tell someone else that because they don’t want a gun, the other person shouldn’t have one either. Most importantly, the second amendment must be preserved. There are those who feel since the wording on the bill of rights says to “form a well-armed militia” and since America has a fine full time fighting force the need for a militia is no longer present, and they would have a pretty good argument. But reflecting back on the George Washington’s letter in the Federalist papers, and the Supreme Court ruling, the right to keep and bear arms is about so much more than being able to stand up an army. An unarmed people can more easily lose their freedoms, without fear of the people rising up and fighting back, a tyrannical government can easily limit, if not totally eliminate the right to free speech, the right to a jury trial, the right of reasonable privacy and so on. Or to be more blunt, without the fear of the people standing up and fighting back, they can take any and all our freedoms, at which point, they can easily shift into a full communist style