Right to keep and bear arms

to maintain their Constitutional right. For instance, Trump plans to enforce the laws that are already in place. By enforcing the laws and ensuring that criminals are off the streets and behind bars, crime rates and gun violence would decrease. Trump cites Project Exile in Richmond, Virginia as a “tremendous program” to help combat crimes by sentencing criminals to 5 years in prison if they commit a crime with the use of a gun (“Protecting Our Second Amendment Rights Will Make America Great…

Do you feel that there are too many violent gun incidents in the United States every year? If you said yes then you agree with millions of other Americans. Gun control, laws, and bans are a largely controversial issue within our country. As of right now there are a large variety of laws about guns, ammunition, and magazines. Large caliber rounds as well as magazines that hold more than 10 bullets are now not purchasable by civilians. Machine guns have far more restrictions due to their…

While that may be true, does it not make more sense for civilians to have the right to conceal carry and be there to protect other innocent citizens against those who suffer from mental illness? Both conservatives and liberals agree that these mass shootings that are now happening every year are being caused by people, mostly white…

gun control is taking away everybody's rights to what they believe. Gun control laws are unhelpful, inaccurate, and unlawful. They do not help, and they create more problems for everybody. They create more problems for the government, police, and citizens. Most gun control laws are an invasion of privacy and make people feel more unsafe than before there were any laws. Gun control laws should be less strict because they take away our Second Amendment rights. Gun control laws should be less…

In “Good guys with guns”, the main story was about how a couple who were able to defend themselves with a gun while being robbed. In an interview, they explained that having the right to carry a gun saved their lives. They did stress that both of them had military backgrounds and that they were well trained with guns. I think that while having the gun at that moment did save their lives, the robber, who also had a gun, would not have been able to commit this crime if there were stricter gun…

Virginia does have a militia. The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration’s official website details the establishment of a militia in Article 1 Section 13 of Virginia’s Bill of Rights, located within the Virginia Constitution: That a well-regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the proper; that standing armies, in time of peace, should be avoided as dangerous to liberty; and that in all cases the military should be under strict subordination to, and…

problem because, firearms are fundamental to the culture of the American people. Topic Sentence 2: Attacks on the Second Amendment is a problem because, it is an attack on a fundamental unalienable right. Topic Sentence 3: Attacks on the Second Amendment is a problem because, without the right to bear arms people cannot defend themselves from criminals. Topic Sentence 4: Attacks on the Second Amendment is a problem because, the Second Amendment stands as a reminder that the people of the United…

The Second Amendment Out the ten Bill of Rights, the second amendment is the most important for many reasons.The second amendment is the most important because it gives us the right to own guns and even use them if necessary.Some examples of the second amendment being the most important will be explained. The first reason why the second amendment is important is because we are an uncommon nation, to have the right to own arms so why change it. Alexander Hamilton, Founding Father, said “The…

second amendment says that “We Have The Right to Bare Arms”as a result guns should not be controlled by the government Gun control laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns. “Of the 62 mass shootings in the United States between 1982 and 2012, 49 of the shooters used illegally got guns.”(Follman) This shows that gun control did not stop these killers from getting guns they will just get them illegally. Specifically, John R. Lott, Jr., Ph.D., gun rights activist, stated, "The…

violent crimes throughout one hundred and seventy cities in the United States, concluded that gun restrictions generally had no effect on suicide and violent crime rates (Kleck and Patterson 1993). In order to justify taking away citizens prima facie rights, gun abolition would need to save more lives than it costs. Even if the there was a strong correlation between guns and crime, abolition or restrictions wouldn’t stop the ability of getting a firearm. For the same reason as alcohol…