Second Amendment Pros And Cons

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”. This amendment was instituted to the Constitution on December 15, 1791 and means that any person in our country has the right to own and bear arms at any point and that the right may not be taken from you. Although James Madison did not invent the right to bear arms he did in fact wright the second amendment. The framers of this amendment decided it was important to be able to bear arms because of the success they found of having guns in the previous war [the English men also just enjoyed the use of arms]. Although this is still an amendment today it still has gone through a lot of debate. One court case that I found was called McDonald vs the city of Chicago Illinois. This court case was started because a 76 year old man [he is now 81] named Otis …show more content…
This court case took place because of a man named Miller that supposedly transported a shotgun that had a twelve inch long barrel even though the law specifically says that it had to be 18 inches in length to be considered legal. Miller believed that his second amendment right was being violated and that he should legally be allowed to own and use a shotgun with a 12 inch barrel. In the conclusion of the case the court ruled that they were not violating his second amendment right and that he still has to either have a shotgun with a barrel of 18 inches in length or he has to have it stamped to make it legal. I would have to agree with the court on the decision made because I feel that his second amendment right was not being violated. This is because he is still aloud to have a shotgun [although it has to be 18 inches in length] and if he really wanted the shotgun with a 12 inch barrel he could have just gotten it