Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

be strictly licensed and in most cases prohibited. In Mary Ivin’s essay: Get a Knife, Get a Dog, but Get Rid of Guns, she states that we should not be allowed to carry guns.…

Our country was built on the ideas life,liberty, and property. To achieve these ideals the Founding Fathers of our country devised a constitution with a Bill of Rights. All of these rights have led to a safer and brighter future for America. However, one of the most argued and most controversial of these Amendments is the Second Amendment, and it simply shouldn’t be. Guns bring a balance and a sense of safety when used in the right hands. Imagine this you pull up to your house one day and your…

in. Another great bond is between hunting partners because you spend so much time together preparing and enjoying wildlife together. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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 is one Amendment that I very much stand by. This gives us as people the ability to possess a gun; it is our right not a privilege. This right has been…

controversial. While many people believe that citizens shouldn’t be able to own weapons at all, many others also believe that due to the Second Amendment, it is a right for citizens to bear arms. But there is a way to compromise so we can make both parties happy in this case, so we could reduce gun-related incidents while still allowing defenders of the second amendment to be happy by expanding background checks, informing the public better, and many other steps. In “Clinging to Guns” by Susan…

Gun carry policies base their origins back to the 19th century, when the United States just finished with the Civil War and blacks initially obtained their lawful freedom. During that time, although Africans were officially emancipated, they were kept under subjugation by racist laws, such as the Black Codes and groups like the Ku Klux Klan. Similarly, in 1871, Texas and other southern states banned the carrying of guns in order to control blacks from gaining power over the whites and to prevent…

edited version of the Second Amendment, taking away the public’s safety net, and even taking guns away from police. If these reasons do not seem absurd enough, there are contradicting…

shooter armed with a Military style assault weapon, Adam Lanza a 20 year old with a disturbed mind had enter the school. This assault weapon he carried was a Bushmaster AR 15 a civilized market military style weapon capable of firing a bullet every second. Also found in Adam Lanza car were two Large Caliber guns, along with several large capacity ammunition magazines all in which legally belonged…

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), is a system made by the US and is controlled by the FBI, in which there is a process of examining a name of a person who is interested in buying a gun where they undergo federal and state criminal records to see if they are ineligible and are possibly unable to purchase a gun. Federal law also puts a stop to the selling of weapons to people who have been convicted of a felony, have a warrant out for their arrest, have used drugs…

in the United States have almost tripled, and every month there is at least 3 mass shootings that occur. Yet as a Nation, we have not came together to find a solution to end the gun violence, instead we have divided further and further away because of it. So the question remains: how did America get to this point and how do we end the bloodshed? If you could see a timeline of how this happened you would have to start at the peak of the gangster age…

power and are keeping gun rights where they are now are trying to remove them saying that people should be allowed to carry guns on them and use them at shooting ranges and for self protection. In the states that have the least amount of gun restriction there is a lower shooting rate than the states with more gun restrictions. The NRA has many good points about gun laws and restrictions. They say that, if people had guns during these shooting that the shooters would have ended up dead a lot…