DO YOU OR DO YOU NOT AGREe?

Question

Do you agree with the second amendment? the right to bear arms? or do you not. and why?

Answer 1

The actual wording of the second amendment is " 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.

Thus, I think the "militia" should have all the arms they want and need for security. I don't believe just anyone should be able to have a firearm and I don't like that idea.

Answer 2

Since I have a concealed carry permit, that would mean I agree with the right to bear arms. The problem is not guns, but the idiots and criminals who get them. All the laws in the world will not prevent criminals from getting their hands on guns. Remember how well Prohibition stopped drinking? I pray the time never comes that I have to use lethal force, but that is up to the criminal who is stupid enough to force me to do it. "A gun is like a parachute; you hope you never need one, but if you do then nothing else can take its place."

Answer 3

I agree and i disagree,
I agree to the fact that people have the right to bear arms on the grounds that I'm an avid hunter, and i enjoy target practice.
but on the other hand there are too many irresponsible people out there who take the law into their own hand, and or think that they can play god, those are the people that make questions like your arise.
Fred

Answer 4

As with the majority of the people who have answered, I agree. This was a law set down by our founding-fathers as a basic freedom. The government does not have the right (constitutionally or morally) to take away this right. Although there are many people who abuse this right and do stupid things with it, that is the reason there are laws about gun possession and why there are consequences for those who disobey them.

Answer 5

I definitely support the Second Amendment. It is our protection against a (future) totalitarian government in America. I am also a shotgun/rifle/bow hunter. In MN, it is possible to obtain a permit to carry a concealed weapon. I do not have one, but i can tell you that gun crime rates have not increased as a result of this law.

Answer 6

Absolutely. I have many guns (legally) and I would never let anyone take those away from me. If we took the guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens, the only ones who would have them would be criminals, and that just isn't right.

Answer 7

Agree. The government should NOT be able to tell me whether or not I can protect myself with a gun.

Answer 8

I totally agree. We, as Americans, it is our RIGHT to be protected! Guns can be used in bad ways and in good ways. People say, guns kill people, but hey--they also PROTECT people!

Answer 9

Agree. We need to be able to have the right to protect ourselves.

Answer 10

Praise the Lord and Pass the ammunition!

Citizens must be allowed to arm themselves to protect their life and that of their family in the event they are attacked by a criminal.

The anti-gun lobby and the brady campaign want to outlaw guns completely, but the problem is...when you outlaw guns, only outlaws have guns.

they commonly try to use a warped logic to convince us that we don't need firearms to protect ourselves. here are 40 examples of the flawed logic they use for wanting to ban guns.

Let me use this quote to remind people that the Second Amendment called for the arming of citizen's to apply the same checks and balances found in the set up of our democracy to extend to the country as a whole. to prevent one side, either the government or the people, from having all the power.

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
-Benjamin Franklin, 1759


Flawed anti-gun, Brady Campaign logic

1. Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, & Chicago cops need guns.

2. Washington DC's low murder rate of 69 per 100,000 is due to strict gun
control, and Indianapolis' high murder rate of 9 per 100,000 is due to the
lack of gun control.

3. Statistics showing high murder rates justify gun control but statistics
showing increasing murder rates after gun control are "just statistics."

4. The Brady Bill and the Assault Weapons Ban, both of which went into
effect in 1994 are responsible for the decrease in violent crime rates,
which have been declining since 1991.

5. We must get rid of guns because a deranged lunatic may go on a shooting
spree at any time and anyone who would own a gun out of fear of such a
lunatic is paranoid.

6. The more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals.

7. An intruder will be incapacitated by tear gas or oven spray, but if shot
with a .357 Magnum will get angry and kill you.

8. A woman raped and strangled is morally superior to a woman with a smoking
gun and a dead rapist at her feet.

9. When confronted by violent criminals, you should "put up no defense -
give them what they want, or run" (Handgun Control Inc. Chairman Pete
Shields, Guns Don't Die - People Do, 1981, p. 125).

10. The New England Journal of Medicine is filled with expert advice about
guns; just like Guns & Ammo has some excellent treatises on heart surgery.


11. One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil
engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for internal medicine, a computer
programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.

12. The 2nd Amendment, ratified in 1787, refers to the National Guard, which
was created 130 years later, in 1917.

13. The National Guard, federally funded, with bases on federal land, using
federally-owned weapons, vehicles, buildings and uniforms, punishing
trespassers under federal law, is a "state" militia.

14. These phrases: "right of the people peaceably to assemble," "right of
the people to be secure in their homes," "enumerations herein of certain
rights shall not be construed to disparage others retained by the people,"
and "The powers not delegated herein are reserved to the states
respectively, and to the people" all refer to individuals, but "the right of
the people to keep and bear arms" refers to the state.

15. "The Constitution is strong and will never change." But we should ban
and seize all guns thereby violating the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Amendments to
that Constitution.

16. Rifles and handguns aren't necessary to national defense! Of course, the
army has hundreds of thousands of them.

17. Private citizens shouldn't have handguns, because they aren't "military
weapons'', but private citizens shouldn't have "assault rifles'', because
they are military weapons.

18. In spite of waiting periods, background checks, fingerprinting,
government forms, etc., guns today are too readily available, which is
responsible for recent school shootings. In the 1940's, 1950's and 1960's,
anyone could buy guns at hardware stores, army surplus stores, gas stations,
variety stores, Sears mail order, no waiting, no background check, no
fingerprints, no government forms and there were no school shootings.

19. The NRA's attempt to run a "don't touch" campaign about kids handling
guns is propaganda, but the anti-gun lobby's attempt to run a "don't touch"
campaign is responsible social activity.

20. Guns are so complex that special training is necessary to use them
properly, and so simple to use that they make murder easy.

21. A handgun, with up to 4 controls, is far too complex for the typical
adult to learn to use, as opposed to an automobile that only has 20.

22. Women are just as intelligent and capable as men but a woman with a gun
is "an accident waiting to happen" and gun makers' advertisements aimed at
women are "preying on their fears."

23. Ordinary people in the presence of guns turn into slaughtering butchers
but revert to normal when the weapon is removed.

24. Guns cause violence, which is why there are so many mass killings at gun
shows.

25. A majority of the population supports gun control, just like a majority
of the population supported owning slaves.

26. Any self-loading small arm can legitimately be considered to be a
"weapon of mass destruction" or an "assault weapon."

27. Most people can't be trusted, so we should have laws against guns, which
most people will abide by because they can be trusted.

28. The right of Internet pornographers to exist cannot be questioned
because it is constitutionally protected by the Bill of Rights, but the use
of handguns for self defense is not really protected by the Bill of Rights.

29. Free speech entitles one to own newspapers, transmitters, computers, and
typewriters, but self- defense only justifies bare hands.

30. The ACLU is good because it uncompromisingly defends certain parts of
the Constitution, and the NRA is bad, because it defends other parts of the
Constitution.

31. Charlton Heston, a movie actor as president of the NRA is a cheap
lunatic who should be ignored, but Michael Douglas, a movie actor as a
representative of Handgun Control, Inc. is an ambassador for peace who is
entitled to an audience at the UN arms control summit.

32. Police operate with backup within groups, which is why they need larger
capacity pistol magazines than do "civilians" who must face criminals alone
and therefore need less ammunition.

33. We should ban "Saturday Night Specials" and other inexpensive guns
because it's not fair that poor people have access to guns too.

34. Police officers have some special Jedi-like mastery over handguns that
private citizens can never hope to obtain.

35. Private citizens don't need a gun for self- protection because the
police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the
police are not responsible for their protection.

36. Citizens don't need to carry a gun for personal protection but police
chiefs, who are desk-bound administrators who work in a building filled with
cops, need a gun.

37. "Assault weapons" have no purpose other than to kill large numbers of
people. The police need assault weapons. You do not.

38. When Microsoft pressures its distributors to give Microsoft preferential
promotion, that's bad; but when the Federal government pressures cities to
buy guns only from Smith & Wesson, that's good.

39. Trigger locks do not interfere with the ability to use a gun for
defensive purposes, which is why you see police officers with one on their
duty weapon.

40. Handgun Control, Inc., says they want to "keep guns out of the wrong
hands." Guess what? You have the wrong hands.