Importance of The Second Amendment

Mass shootings are increasing in the United States, and Democrats are seizing the opportunity to push anti-gun legislation to deter gun violence in America. Guns and the Second Amendment have come to the forefront of political rhetoric, leading to conflicting views between Republicans and Democrats on the future of gun legislation. Republicans are encouraging law abiding citizens to purchase firearms and defend themselves against acts of violence by criminals. On the contrary, Democrats believe…

Justice Anthony Kennedy told his opinion for the 5-4 majority. The Court said that the First Amendment suggested that the Establishment Clause was never meant to outlaw prayer. The prayers that were said by the Town of Greece did not talk badly about other religions which made it protected under the First Amendment. The Town of Greece won this case solely because of the Fourteenth Amendment and Selective Incorporation. Another example of Selective Incorporation is the case McDonald v. Chicago…

Nancy Lanza, then after drove to his mother 's work where she happened to teach kindergarten. As he entered the school, he had killed six adults, one of them involving the school’s principal and twenty children. This shooting is said to become the second-deadliest in U.S. history. (Steve, Horwitz, Fahrenthold) As much as the husband with good intentions, decided to give his wife a gun for protection and no one would have ever guessed that Adam would grab a gun and decide to kill people, these…

proven to be ineffective, and targeting the wrong issues. When the United States of America declared their independence from England, a constitution was drafted up, which laid the ground work for the law of the land. One of those laws was the Second Amendment, 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” (Cornell University Law School). Gun bans that are being proposed are a…

use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment.” . . . This is inconsistent with Heller’s clear statement that the Second Amendment “extends . . . to . . . arms . . . that were not in existence at the time of the founding” (2) “. . . the [Massachusetts Supreme Court] concluded that stun guns are “unusual” because they are “a thoroughly modern invention.” . . . By equating “unusual” with “in common use at the time of the Second Amendment’s enactment,” the court’s second explanation is the…

GUN CONTROL STARTS WITH LEGISLATION Gun laws that are ineffective are a major cause of violent crime in America, the best way to resolve the problem is to change and strength the laws. We are reaching the end of 2016, and there have been reports of at least 44,427 gun related incidents. In 2015 there was a total of 53,379. In 2014 it was reported that there was 51,848 gun related incidents. (Gun Violence archive, 2016)The gun violence does not have any signs of slowing down. Every day, 48…

This way of thinking ignores the existence of the 2nd Amendment in the United States Constitution. Abolishing guns altogether would not solve anything. This would only raise the sales on guns in the black market. Violence would increase drastically because if the government tried to take away one the rights given…

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.”(US Const. amend. II) The meaning of this amendment to the United States Constitution has been heavily debated topic for decades. For me, the meaning of the Second Amendment was never controversial because I grew up in a household where my family held in high regard the rights granted to us by the United States Constitution and Bill of Rights. However, I…

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GUN CONTROL THE LASTING TREND OF THE 21ST CENTURY What is the most debated topic of today? Is it abortion, gay rights, gender discrimination, race, or is it guns? After recent research I have concluded it has been guns. Our media is saturated with guns; from intense action movies to even our news covering guns, it 's virtually impossible to escape this “gun frenzy” that America has gone into. In the past years gun related homicides in the United States have almost tripled, and every…