I was asked a question that I really never thought of. My one friend asked me of how I felt about the right to bare arms. At first I was confused, I never really thought about if people abuse the power of that right. After I talked to some of my cousins I heard what they had to say. My one cousin said how police abuse their power and shouldn't need to use guns. They should affectively know how to stop people from just hand to hand. But what if that person has a gun? I'm stuck on this subject, I didn't respond to my friend because I'm really not sure how I stand on the issue. I believe a person who abuses this right should lose that right because of their stupidity. That’s just me… and should it be right for a person to buy a machine gun? Their not going to hunt with it that’s for sure!
Maybe they should have a limit on what kind of gun you can buy. I don’t think anyone in the United States needs a machine gun for anything. That’s my opinion…
Tell me what you think. I think the second amendment is a very important issue and should be a very important issue to talk about.
"how I felt about the right to bare arms"
I feel that people with good physiques look good with bare arms but that people who are grossly overweight look better when they wear long sleeves so that we don't have to look at the rolls of fat on their bare arms. But regardless of their physique, everybody has the right to bare arms if the want to wear sleeveless clothes.
As far as the right to bear arms goes, I think most of your concerns about firearms have already been addressed.
I think it is crazy to require our police to go unarmed when the criminals are well armed. Shall we tie their arms behind their backs too? Of course when a policeman abuses their power they should be punished. These laws are already on the books. If they are not being enforced rigorously enough that is a political problem that should be addressed by voters. Police abuse of power has nothing to do with firearms. I remember the NY policemen badly abusing a young man with a nightstick and a broom handle a few years ago.
People still have the right to own machine guns (fully automatic weapons) but there is a very expensive and very restrictive permitting process that they must go through. Legal machine gun ownership is very rare. There are quite a lot of illegal fully automatic weapons on the streets in the hands of criminals. This shows that gun control laws don't work very well. Criminals tend to ignore them.
As far as abusing a gun and losing the right to possess one goes, these laws are also on the books. There are literally thousands of laws regulating guns. Many of them are seldom enforced. Many of them are also felonies. When somebody is convicted of a felony they lose their right to own and possess a gun. Problem is solved. Unfortunately many convicted felons continue in their criminal careers when they are released from prison. As noted above, criminals tend to ignore laws that they find inconvenient. Fortunately, law abiding people have the right to also bear arms so that the criminals are not the only ones who are carrying firearms.
If you look deeper into the matter, it is extremely rare (almost non-existent) for a person with a concealed carry permit to commit a gun crime. They tend to be among the most law-abiding people in our population and part of the permitting process includes training on safety and legal responsibilities.
When I was a kid in high school in Sheridan WY about 30 years ago practically every self-respecting boy drove a pickup to high school which was equipped with a gun rack that included a deer rifle, a .22 rifle and a shotgun. We never had gun crimes and we did not even lock our vehicles. The guns never caused any problems because we were all decent people whose parents would have kicked our butts if we had used our firearms in anyway but a responsible way. Guns don't cause problems. Savages do. The way to address crime is to get people not to raise their children to be savages.
Our forefathers created the 2nd Amendment in order to enable the citizens of a growing nations to protect themselves from British invaders, Native Americans, or anyone else who tried to take what was rightfully theirs. I feel that to re-write the 2nd Amendment and put limits on what weapons you can buy is only asking for trouble. No, I do not believe that Americans should be carrying around AK-47s and Uzis for self defense purposes. But to deny them of this right and limit the market is damaging and wrong.
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I agree with you on most parts.
But the 2nd amendment was put in place to protect us from our government @_@
At least in part :)
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I'm so disappointed that jackbenimble got to the "bare arms" joke before I could.
In regard to the 2nd Amendment, I 100% agree with everything that jackbenimble said. There are many other things that can be used as weapons, not just guns. It would just be unbearable for the government to take away one more "guaranteed right" that the Founding Fathers gave the citizens of the United States of America.
Even though law-abiding citizens have the right to bear arms, when a criminal with a gun threatens you, it can turn ugly. For example, under Iowa law, if someone breaks into my house and threatens me with a gun, and I get out my gun and shoot them, and they survive, they can sue me. If I kill them, their family can sue me. What kind of sense does that make? Some states do allow lethal force, and in those occasions, the Second Amendment serves those people well.
The Second Amendment was created to let citizens protect their person from harm when confronted with danger. When the right to protect oneself mixes with the ever-looming threat of perhaps being sued for protecting oneself, the Second Amendment has lost all of its meaning. I don't see a need for people to have assault rifles and machine guns, but it is appropriate to allow law-abiding citizens to have handguns and allow them to use deadly force when their person is threatened.
To cope with the stupidity of our country, people who have guns/gun permits should be required to take some course on safety and local laws in order to protect themselves from the possible threat of legal action for seemingly responsible use of a gun.
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Actually, the second amendment was created so that if the federal government ever fell through, or another country invaded and our army fell through or wasn't enough, the people could form state militias.
"The Second Amendment was created to let citizens protect their person from harm when confronted with danger." <---Doesn't that encompass forming state militias in the event of the Federal Government falling, having the power to recover our rights, and resist tyranny? I guess your explanation is a little more precise and probably more of what I was trying to say. Thanks for writing it so eloquently.
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Your welcome =) I was trying to say that the Founding Fathers created the Second Amendment specifically to form state militias, in response to the British. They go over this topic in The Federalist Papers, and this specific purpose falls under protecting oneself from harm but the big argument between gun control activists and people who are pro-gun (can't remember what you call them at the moment, lol) is that the Founding Fathers only talk about this specific purpose. They never once mention if guns owned by citizens can be used to protect themselves individually, they only talk about guns in case of needing to form a militia.
Guns do not kill people. Projectile bullets fired from guns kill people.
I think Chris Rock had it right when he suggested setting the price of bullets at $5,000 apiece. That way, when you hear about someone getting shot, you can be darn sure they probably deserved it.
How immature. How can you say that?! What is the problem is wrong education. If someone does not know how to use it correctly, they should have no problem hurting anyone!
EDUCATION! I live in a community where pretty much everyone owns a gun. As kids, we generally learn gun safety at a very young age. I can't remember the last time someone from my town was injured because of a gun. Responsible gun ownership comes from a knowledge of how to use guns.
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