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RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS  

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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

A reply to a reply on the gun control issue

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 concrete policy analysis on gun control in America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Illegal firearms were worth $100-$200 in gift cards on this December day in San Francisco, as folks lined up to anonymously trade in their guns for spare cash. But are the streets any safer?

"...the former chief justice, Warren Burger, argues that our constitutional right to bear arms is based on reasoning that doesn't hold up in today's world."

In the case that a man or woman physically harms someone to the point of police intervention, that person should not own a gun, just the same as a Sexual Predator can't live near a school or daycare. They are both the same type of crime; abusing somebody.

Being accused and being convicted are two very different things. An individual convicted of domestic abuse should not have easy access to firearms of any kind.

People like Paul Revere and Theodore Roosevelt would despise todays sissies. The people of this country still have the right to vote until you voluntarily surrender your right to bear arms.

Do I Have the Right to Bear Arms?

A focus on the Second Amendment, absolutely an individual right.

A look at how some right-wingers believe Patriotism means not dissenting from the government's current policies.

John McCain says he is writing a bill to make guns legal in National Parks. School and shopping mall shootings are not enough? We need more?