Right to Bear Arms
Right to Bear Arms
“We should not blame a gun itself for any crime or any acts of violence, any more than we can blame a pen for misspelling a word.” Proven by this statement belonging to Robert Bennett but even more notably by the malevolence of the world’s past, time after time it has been proven that guns do not kill people; in fact it is the people themselves that do. Remaining stationary and innocuous until a force and a finger consciously pulls the trigger, a gun is and will always remain an inanimate object that only becomes dangerous when a deranged or wicked mind has willed it do so. As the controversy surrounding the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights - a proclamation of the ability for Americans to bear arms - escalates, gun ownership and the interpretation of US founding documents is put into question as arguments support the counterpoint that infringing said right could finally reduce gun violence to save the lives of countless individuals. Due to the evidence provided by the true intentions of the Founders to open the citizens’ eyes to the dangers of oppressive government, climbing crime rates, and the importance of the Second Amendment as a means of preserving moral duty, history itself reveals that stripping Americans of the right to bear arms inevitably rids them of their life and liberty.
What exactly are the requirements of being a ‘good citizen’? Although the definition varies according to an individual’s beliefs and the country they reside in, the most universal component of good citizenship is abiding strictly to all laws and conditions of the government while enjoying the rights endowed to them. Being mindful and obedient to society is crucial to achieving a world of “liberty and justice for all”; however the institution of democratic law in the United States has extended the typical guidelines of citizenship to produce a social order far more utopian than any other throughout history thus far. Subsequent to officially establishing
“We should not blame a gun itself for any crime or any acts of violence, any more than we can blame a pen for misspelling a word.” Proven by this statement belonging to Robert Bennett but even more notably by the malevolence of the world’s past, time after time it has been proven that guns do not kill people; in fact it is the people themselves that do. Remaining stationary and innocuous until a force and a finger consciously pulls the trigger, a gun is and will always remain an inanimate object that only becomes dangerous when a deranged or wicked mind has willed it do so. As the controversy surrounding the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights - a proclamation of the ability for Americans to bear arms - escalates, gun ownership and the interpretation of US founding documents is put into question as arguments support the counterpoint that infringing said right could finally reduce gun violence to save the lives of countless individuals. Due to the evidence provided by the true intentions of the Founders to open the citizens’ eyes to the dangers of oppressive government, climbing crime rates, and the importance of the Second Amendment as a means of preserving moral duty, history itself reveals that stripping Americans of the right to bear arms inevitably rids them of their life and liberty.
What exactly are the requirements of being a ‘good citizen’? Although the definition varies according to an individual’s beliefs and the country they reside in, the most universal component of good citizenship is abiding strictly to all laws and conditions of the government while enjoying the rights endowed to them. Being mindful and obedient to society is crucial to achieving a world of “liberty and justice for all”; however the institution of democratic law in the United States has extended the typical guidelines of citizenship to produce a social order far more utopian than any other throughout history thus far. Subsequent to officially establishing