Gun Control Debate

Imagine an intruder entering your residence, picking the lock and invading your families’ personal and private place, your home. Now, remember that your father has a rifle locked away in a case in the back of the bedroom closet. You barely hear him as he removes the firearm from its resting place and loads a cartridge until to action, perhaps it’s your imagination. Yet, you can hear the intruder passing through the house as the eerie silence of time speeding by launches your senses into a fit of terror. Across the hall you hear your father slip out of the bedroom and pass your door. Flicking on the light he shouts at the intruder, “Get out of my house!” The intruder fires a handgun he had concealed and your father fires back. There he is, the man that invaded your home and endangered your family, wounded on the kitchen floor. The police arrive, having been called by your mother, and handcuff your father. He spends the next six years in prison for owning a firearm in an area where it’s prohibited without a license (Adams, M). Is this just? Is this the society we have created? The fundamental right to protect yourself, your family and your property denied because of an unconstitutional regulation forbidding the possession of firearms in one’s own home. The Second Amendment provides for the protection of the people of the United States and their rights, be they basic human rights or rights as citizens of a profoundly thinking country. It is through the Second Amendment that the founding fathers acknowledged the pre-existing right to protect ourselves, in so doing, guaranteeing American citizens the right to “bear arms”. The Second Amendment text 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 (Jefferson)” The argument over the second amendment is basic and complex at the same time. Most of the controversy is over the vagueness of the terms