The second amendment of the Constitution says‚ “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.” Analysis of this clause varies depending on how one wants to interpret. For example‚ someone who views the amendment with the original
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afraid to trust the people with arms.” James Madison Gun ownership of all able-bodied men is protected by the Second Amendment of the Constitution so that they could participate in the militia to keep the peace and defend the country if needed. The Second Amendment of the US Constitution states : "A well regulated militia being necessary
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assembly the colonists had decided to go to war with Britain and Benjamin’s son Gabriel Martin had joined the Americans under the command of Henrry Burwell. Soon after Gabriel had gone to war and had written letters to his family about how his friend had died during a battle. Soon a British and American skirmish had been brought to the martins home where Gabriel had been wounded and returned home for treatment‚ Where his father had patched him up‚ As morning broke the martins had been healing
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The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution states that‚ “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” (U.S. Const. Am. 2). This amendment guarantees American citizens the right to have firearms. Since this amendment is very indistinct‚ it has remained a matter of debate and discussion in the United States. Many people are asking whether every citizen should have the right to possess a
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Diego In the Bill of Rights‚ the Second Amendment to the Constitution reads: 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. Gun control proponents have argued and some federal courts have ruled that the Second Amendment does not apply to individual citizens of the United States but only to members of militias‚ which‚ they assert‚ are now the state National Guard units. In 2002‚ a federal appeals court
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for the country’s economic and political problems. The Tutsis were called cockroaches on the radio by the Interahamwe militia‚ that consists of Hutu extremists who planned to destroy the entire Tutsi civilian population. Tutsi and people suspected of being Tutsi were killed. Paul himself is a Hutu‚ but his women is Tutsi. You can see in the movie that Paul is bribing the Hutu militia with money and alcohol to extend time before they attacked his
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He argues that the regulating firearms is against the second amendment. The Supreme Court decided that because of Article 1‚ Section 8 (the militia clause)‚ that “[i]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a [sawed-off] shotgun . . . has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well-regulated militia‚ we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an
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Court‚ which reversed the district court. The Supreme Court read the Second Amendment in conjunction with the Militia Clause in Article 1‚ Section 8 of the Constitution‚ and concluded that “[i]n the absence of any evidence tending to show that possession or use of a [sawed-off] shotgun . . . has some reasonable relationship to the preservation or efficiency of a well regulated militia‚ we cannot say that the Second Amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear such an instrument.” 307 U.S. at
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GUNS ARE BEST CONTROLLED BYGOOD AIM. Guns‚ like many other issues of the day‚ have two distinct opposing views with many people in the gray area. Even when looking at a tragic situation‚ people will have two opposite spins on it. For example‚ a suicidal madman on top of the Empire State Building kills six people including himself with a gun. Gun-control advocates think that outlawing guns would have stopped the killing from ever happening. Pro-gun advocates think that it would have been
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into mass internal conflict as seen in Iraq (Wehrey 2013). Through external partnerships with the U.N.‚ the Arab League‚ and the African Union‚ the Libyan government will be able to bolster its political capabilities allowing it to reign in the militias‚ and providing safety to minority groups; all of this would then lead to increased cooperation with the government (Larsen 2011‚ 3). For forty two years Libya was under the rule of Muammar al-Gaddafi who ruled with absolute authority‚ amended
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