why do Americans insist they have the right to own a gun because of the constitution??

Question

The Constitution says you have the right to bear arms not own them. If you look in the dictionary Oxford or if you prefer Webster's dictionary the word bare does not have in any of its defintions the word own so if you use the Constitution for your support where else does it say you have the right to own a gun??

Answer 1

thats what bear arms means the right to own them

Answer 2

Your question is one I have not though of. It's good so here the answer.
Under the Rights Priviledge, Immunity part of the Constitution is where this question would fall.
The people own all the Rights, Priviledges, Immunities except those granted (given) to the government in order to form and operate a perfect Union.
The people are the Sovereign, the government is the servant of the Sovereign and does not have any right to what is not law.
Base upon on the Constituion and all its documents (thousands) you will find the supporting information. Take the time to read and I will assure you, you will know more than about guns. Your head will be bursting with a lot of wonderful information.

Answer 3

i do no longer care approximately your decrease & pastes; it did no longer happen those days. people have had weapons as long as we've been here,going decrease back to the era of the pilgrims. I own a handgun and that i've got a license to hold it hid; I have been on condition that as quickly as i replaced right into a workforce psychologist for the Parole branch. there is not any longer something incorrect with a private risk-free practices handgun. so a ways as capturing sprees are worried,Tim McVeigh did no longer use a gun to kill greater advantageous than a hundred thirty people,greater advantageous than any HS youngster ever did with a gun. If somebody desires to take human existence they're going to come across a fashion,with or with out gun. you could slice a jugular in a chop up 2nd with a easy-weight plastic dealt with boxcutter.

Answer 4

You concede that we have the right to bare guns, but you question if we have the right to own them. You say in your premise, "The Constitution says you have the right to bare arms, (sic) not own them. Obviously, to the Framers of that document it was accepted that "bare" also meant "own" because they all had guns which they owned. Such as this is the exact reason I prefer judges be elected or appointed who consider the Constitution a rigid, as opposed to a living, document and rule upon it based upon what it meant at the time of the writing instead of what a certain word or phrase may mean today.

Answer 5

No person has a right "because of the Constitution" -- not the right ot own an gun or any other right. Individuals have rights as an inalienable part of their nature or identity as human beings. Rights may be protected or infringed by government, but they can neither be granted nor taken away. One acquires the right to own a gun simply by creating, purchasing, or inheriting a gun.

The Constitution is not a document whereby the government confers some finite number of rights on people. Indeed, our rights are innumerable. The Constitution is a document whereby the people specify a finite number of powers that they grant to the government.

The questioner is right in that the 2nd Amendment doesn't have anything to do with the right to own a gun. It is the 5th Amendment that prohibits the government from depriving a person of property (such as a gun) except by due process of law, i.e., as punishment for a crime, etc. However, the above question is ill conceived. It should have been, "Where in the Constitution is the government granted the power to interfere with gun ownership?"

Answer 6

In order to bear arms you have to own them. How else can a person bear a firearm without owning it?

Abi:
If the students at Va Tech had been allowed to bear arms on the campus legally, then perhaps the number of those killed would have been lower. The shooter violated the law by having a weapon on campus. Maybe if the libs/dems hadn't taken discipline and God out the schools this things wouldn't be happening. But of course we all know the libs/dems know what's best for everyone, right?

If someone wants to live in a society where guns are banned move to a country where they have a ban and leave the rest of us alone!

Answer 7

The right the KEEP and Bear arms is the formemost provision to protect the citizenry from overarching govt. It's how the founding fathers fought off the brits, natives, and other hostiles over the course of the first oh say 250 years. We keep having to defend it, so it's a good idea to stick to this one. Given what is coming, I am arming up heavily.

Answer 8

When that ammendment was created, they didn't have gun permits or any of that. They were concerned that the government would take away their weapons, which now it can unless a person ownes it. Therefore, Americans do have the right to own a weapon in order to keep the Constitution valid.

Answer 9

Then you tell me where will we bare them from? the government i doubt it the Constitution i doubt it first responders i doubt it...u know i feel that the Constitution was made for the people that was oppress and beat down with no notion of protection why because there was enemy's present to destroy all that was value and all we had at the time was moral value to love to live to understand and to learn to know right from wrong and to protect all that matter to us as country as a people as nation to bare arms to protect that our moral values.We bare the arms from our homes for that is where love begins is at home!

Answer 10

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.


hmmm, now unless i'm blind here , it says KEEP and bear arms does it not .

nothing else needs said , other then as a american i have the constituional right to KEEP and BEAR ARMS

Answer 11

Wow, Americans are really big on this!!! It's a gun, BIG DEAL. No ones stopping you from hunting, just don't buy a handgun those are designed for murder. And don't argue that it's self defense, owning one is much more likely to get you killed than save you!

Here in Canada our guns are registered rifles and shotguns for hunting. Crimes are committed with illegal handguns which are smuggled across the border or stolen from "collectors". Soon collecting will not be an excuse for owning a handgun, and those will all be illegal. GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!

Going to pick up my new 30-06 w/ scope next week! Look out moose....