Argumentative Essay: The Second Amendment
Olivia Watts
3AB
Current Event #4
Pleading the Second Amendment to back up your gun rights is actually not a completely valid argument. Some people believe the Second Amendment not only allows them to own guns, but that the government cannot restrain those rights. This thought process on our rights in untrue not only in this circumstance but in all of our rights. The government can restrict our rights, and they do. The fact is, there are already limits on firearms by the government. For example: people cannot own machine guns, hand grenades, or shoulder-launched missiles and children, mentally ill, and felons cannot own any type of gun. The Supreme Court has refused to inspect the laws that bound the right to carry firearms and specific types
of arms such as semi-automatic guns. People can still argue the Second Amendment for their gun rights, but their argument would be invalid to stop the bans on firearms. The Second Amendment 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." According to this source, it is not a valid argument to the Supreme Court, the top federal court in the USA, because there are limits on all of our rights. There are limits on our First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, by not being able to say whatever you want wherever you want if it will cause problems or violence (crazy libel,a false statement that could harm someone's reputation, restrictions on words you can say on television, give out child pornography, etc.). Our rights to no unreasonable search or seizure, 4th amendment, is over seen with driving checkpoints or getting searched in an airport, rights of no racial discrimination is invaded with separation of races between inmates to keep violence to a minimum, and so on. All of our rights are limited by government, so when you are defending your gun rights make sure you have more behind your argument than just the Second Amendment.
Badger, Emily. "No, You Don’t Have an Absolute Right to Own Guns." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2015. Web. 12 Dec. 2015.
3AB
Current Event #4
Pleading the Second Amendment to back up your gun rights is actually not a completely valid argument. Some people believe the Second Amendment not only allows them to own guns, but that the government cannot restrain those rights. This thought process on our rights in untrue not only in this circumstance but in all of our rights. The government can restrict our rights, and they do. The fact is, there are already limits on firearms by the government. For example: people cannot own machine guns, hand grenades, or shoulder-launched missiles and children, mentally ill, and felons cannot own any type of gun. The Supreme Court has refused to inspect the laws that bound the right to carry firearms and specific types
of arms such as semi-automatic guns. People can still argue the Second Amendment for their gun rights, but their argument would be invalid to stop the bans on firearms. The Second Amendment 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." According to this source, it is not a valid argument to the Supreme Court, the top federal court in the USA, because there are limits on all of our rights. There are limits on our First Amendment rights, freedom of speech, by not being able to say whatever you want wherever you want if it will cause problems or violence (crazy libel,a false statement that could harm someone's reputation, restrictions on words you can say on television, give out child pornography, etc.). Our rights to no unreasonable search or seizure, 4th amendment, is over seen with driving checkpoints or getting searched in an airport, rights of no racial discrimination is invaded with separation of races between inmates to keep violence to a minimum, and so on. All of our rights are limited by government, so when you are defending your gun rights make sure you have more behind your argument than just the Second Amendment.
Badger, Emily. "No, You Don’t Have an Absolute Right to Own Guns." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2015. Web. 12 Dec. 2015.