Joseph Williams

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Controlling the Armory: to enter this house. The owners of the house

could actually shoot you. The issue of omitting

By Joseph Williams
the second amendment and taking away arms

would just add to more crimes.

“A well regulated Militia, being In the Harvard Journal of Law & Public

necessary to the security of a free State, the Policy Volume 30, Issue 2, a study appeared

right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall titled “Would Banning Firearms Reduce Murder

not be infringed” (U.S. Constitution. 2nd and Suicide? A Review of International and

Amendment). This amendment was ratified in Domestic Evidence.” They studied countries

1791. This Amendment gives the U.S. citizens where a ban on guns was implemented and

the right to own guns. Many people believe this compared it with the U.S. The answer to the

right isn’t needed any more and that it is question was “no”, but not only no, they

actually causing many issues in today’s public. actually found that the murder and suicide rate

The media, news, a lot of people say that was increased. As a result of having a no gun

banning guns will solve a lot of violent crimes law, criminals are not afraid to commit crimes,

and suicides that people commit, but this is because the victims have no way to defend

untrue. Let’s put you in the shoes of a criminal themselves. Through their illegal networks

about to do a breaking and entering. Your laws criminals are able to get Illegal weapons to

state that it is illegal for anyone to own a gun. commit their crimes.

As a criminal you would probably feel safer

In Edward Lee’s article he states “In
entering that house. On the other side the laws
District of Columbia v. Heller, the Supreme
says that a person has the right to bear arms
Court defined, for the first time in 217 years of
you would defiantly second guess your decision
the Second Amendment's existence, an

individual right to keep and bear arms for self-
defense purposes.2 This landmark decision
settled, once and for all, the lingering question
of whether the Second Amendment recognizes
a general right to bear arms for all individuals,
or instead limits such right only to the context
of a militia. In a 5-4 decision, the Court opted
for the broader interpretation and struck down
D.C s gun control law that barred individuals
from owning handguns in D.C.3.” Court cases
involving the second amendment happen all the
time. The courts also believe that owning a gun
is a right that has been given to us.
The 2nd Amendment is very important
to the Individual as well as a country. An article
by Stanford Levinson states “the Amendment
indeed protects a more "individual" right to
bear arms. But it should be obvious that the
right of constituent units of a federal system to
have their own armed militias is no small
matter.” Not only does it state that an
individual has the right to bear arms, the
country does as well.
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From coast to coast our Country is a
great one with many freedoms and freedoms to
protect freedoms like the 2nd amendment. Our
Right to bear arms is a right that has been given
to generation and hopefully even more
generations to come.
Works Cited
"The Constitution of the United States,"
Amendment 2.
Kates, Don B. and Gary Mauser. “Would
Banning Firearms Reduce Murder and
Suicide? A Review of International and
Domestic Evidence.” Harvard Journal of
Law & Public Policy. 30 vols 2 issue.
Web. <http://www.harvard-
jlpp.com/archive/#302>
Lee, Edward. "Guns and Speech Technologies:
How the Right to Bear Arms Affects
Copyright Regulations of Speech
Technologies.” The William and Mary
Bill of Rights Journal 17.4 (2009): 1037-
1088. Alt-Press Watch (APW), ProQuest.
Web.  4 Jun. 2010.
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