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SECOND AMENDMENT  

In recent decades, an intense debate over the right to bear arms, more specifically firearms, has divided society and caused an important right of Americans to be put into jeopardy

Are guns the danger to society? Or are the people who wield them the greater danger?

Thoughtful insights into the right to bear arms as provided in the Constitution.

This is the meaning of how the founding fathers designed the Second Amendment. Everyone should know their rights and what freedom really means.

current gun control laws, statistics on gun related violence and deaths, why guns are a threat to public health.

In addition to reevaluating to braod interpretation of the 2nd Amendment to the constitution there may be other cogent reasons why gun control in America should be considered

This right to own and carry firearms is particularly upheld by the National Rifle Association (NRA), a non-profit organization that promotes the sport of marksmanship as well as the right to personal protection.

Typically the pro and anti gun control organizations are as far apart in disagreement on guncontrol measures as any two groups can get. It seems they finally found one measure to stand together on...but are the rights of the mentally ill being trampled?

Gun control means placing restrictions or limitations on owning a firearm. Guns give power to the weak, enabling them to defend themselves against the strong.

A reply to a reply on the gun control issue

A concrete policy analysis on gun control in America.

this column goes into why we should support strict regulation on citizen firearms

As part of a relaxing holiday weekend, I read this controversial book to get another perspective on the whole issue of gun rights vs. control.

In the advent of too many school massacres to now count, including Virginia Tech, we should be questioning our gun laws. The Right to Bear Arms, as stipulated in the Bill of Rights, is an antiquated right and needs to be revisited in these violent times.

The concept of gun control is in need of re-examination and re-interpretation; the needs and demands of the eighteenth century, when the Second Amendment to the Constitution was drafted, are not applicable to current society.

"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." These words make up what is known as the Second Amendment to the United States Bill of Rights.

"This is a case where the issue seems crystal clear. Here is a woman who has taken all the proper, legal steps for her own safety, and quite possibly the safety of her students and fellow teachers."

Finally, after nearly 70 years, the Supreme Court seems ready to define the parameters and meaning of the "right to bear arms."

This short article analyzes two other articles with opposing views on gun control and the interpretation of the Second amendment and explains why one article is stronger than the other by comparing and contrasting the two.

Many people consider supporters of the 2nd amendment to be gun nuts. If that's true then I'm the exception that proves the rule.

This article will address some of the challenges that arise in reading and intepreting the Second Amendment, and explain why it is so hard to apply an Amendment that seems so simple to so many.

Sleepy Blacksburg, Virginia and its pride, Virginia Tech, will long be the unfortunate symbols for the dire need for gun control in the U.S.

An overvierw of some U.S. and foreign laws that limit the use of guns, and commentary on gun control and its ppotential problems

This explains how the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is a shield of freedom against tyranny by our own government.

The Republican Presidential Candidates who have expressed their opinions on gun control on their Republican Presidential Candidates web site do agree that there must be some form of gun control.

We have the right to carry a gun.

Ted Nugent and Tom Plate get to the heart of the gun control debate taking shape across the United States in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre.

Is Washington, D.C.'s gun control law constitutional?

An article to examine what Barak Obama's positions on gun control are, and what they mean to us.

My opinion on how tougher gun control regulations could help the crime-ridden city of Philadelphia.

If "take your guns to work" is going to become a law I want to know. I don't think I am ever going to work outside of my home as long as I live in the state of Florida. I definitely am not ever going to the post office again.

Issues have been around since guns themselves and we continue, as a nation, to struggle with them as crime runs rampant around us.

Recent articles on the Second Amendment and Gun Regulation prompt these views.

The first major incident that I can recall was Columbine High School. It seemed to have started a new fad for cowardly children who have been oppressed and picked on and not given any respect to make a statement to the world. The REAL kicker is that it is societies fault.

The one thing that many people do not get about the "Second Amendment" is the interpretation. The Second Amendment is supposed to be the right to bear arms in case of defense.

It seems that the only people that seem to be discussing the issue are those who have taken up the banners of either Gun Control or Anti-Gun Control, dug in, and fortified their position. But couldn't we mix guns, gun control, and common sense?

Gun control is a touchy issue with many American's. The Second Amendment is a reasoned and timely protection against tyranny- it has been tested over time and doesn't need to be eroded, yet it is being eroded right under our eyes.

In America it is legally our right to bear arms for protection or hunting but there are laws that must be followed. Following is a brief summary of Ohio Gun Laws.

Will the latest school massacre at Virginia Tech cause a movement for more gun control? Or will people think hard about the implications of law abiding people being denied access to guns?

What a waste of time and money

The Liberal gun registry doesn't work. It's past time to scrap it.

Michael & Me is a pro-gun documentary made by Libertarian columnist Larry Elder. It was made to address some of the points brought up by Michael Moore in his anti-gun film called Bowling for Columbine.

In the light of the recent VT shootings, many are calling for stricter gun control laws. Which I agree with, but not by taking guns away, by protecting people and letting them protect themselves.

This paper argues that the Second amendment of the American constitution, should not be dissolved in the face of recent school shootings in an attempt to deter such incidents in the future, since there is no proven correlation between the two items.

Most likely a few reasons as to why some people dislike guns and oppose them is due to the fact that...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit struck down the strictest gun control law in the nation. The court rejected the District of Columbia's ban on individual handgun ownership.

Most Americans know that our country is ruled according to our national constitution. Far fewer people would claim to really know what is included in that document. Unless of course they had read a beginners guide to the American Constitution.

The upcoming United States Supreme Court ruling in District of Columbia vs. Heller may place limits on the Second Amendment's protection of Americans' right to own firearms.

I watch Charlton Heston hold up a rifle at an NRA meeting in Denver, Colorado, as shown in "Bowling for Columbine" and exclaim, "from my cold dead hands." This is a movie I have avoided because the image of Columbine haunts me to this day.

With all the talk of Concealed Carry permits, people often forget that long before state issuance of CCDW, people carried their firearms on their side...and it didn't worry anyone except the bad guys.