Right To Bear Arms Essay
Should the Government Limit Our Right to Bear Arms?
POSITIVE
The government should not limit our right to bear arms for several reasons; the main reason being that it would go against the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. The government, I believe, needs to focus on WHO gets to bear arms rather than take the right to bear arms from all people. Congress needs to set harder laws and punishments for those who misuse guns and other weapons. They also need to set higher requirements for gun purchases. For example: no one with a felony charge of misusing a weapon of any sort shall be able to buy a gun. It’s not perfect but it’s a start.
It was important for the people of America to have the right to bear arms not only to protect and feed themselves but also overthrow the government if necessary. An American Political Economist, Tench Coxe said:
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." -- in "Remarks on the First Part of the …show more content…
A gun was created to kill; by taking the gun away you decrease the number of deaths by the gun. However, weapons can, are and always will be illegally bought, sold and transported within the U.S. The Obama administration is withal proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from evading the law. The law will accomplish this by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those beneficiaries, trustees and etc., to be subjected to do the same type of fingerprint-predicated background checks as individuals if they have chosen to register
POSITIVE
The government should not limit our right to bear arms for several reasons; the main reason being that it would go against the 2nd amendment of the Constitution. The government, I believe, needs to focus on WHO gets to bear arms rather than take the right to bear arms from all people. Congress needs to set harder laws and punishments for those who misuse guns and other weapons. They also need to set higher requirements for gun purchases. For example: no one with a felony charge of misusing a weapon of any sort shall be able to buy a gun. It’s not perfect but it’s a start.
It was important for the people of America to have the right to bear arms not only to protect and feed themselves but also overthrow the government if necessary. An American Political Economist, Tench Coxe said:
"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." -- in "Remarks on the First Part of the …show more content…
A gun was created to kill; by taking the gun away you decrease the number of deaths by the gun. However, weapons can, are and always will be illegally bought, sold and transported within the U.S. The Obama administration is withal proposing a federal rule to stop those who would be ineligible to pass a background check from evading the law. The law will accomplish this by registering a gun to a corporation or trust. The new rule would require people associated with those beneficiaries, trustees and etc., to be subjected to do the same type of fingerprint-predicated background checks as individuals if they have chosen to register