If you don't own a firearm, should you care about the 2nd amendment?

Question

Same goes for the 4th amendment doesn't it?

neo-logic: If you don't have much to say, should you care about freedom of speech?

- So much for the false arguement about law abiding citizens shouldn't care about warrant-less wiretaps, which trample over the 4th amendment. -

Answer 1

The 4th amendment is not applicable to the enemy in time of war. The President has absolute authority to conduct surveillance of the enemy.

Answer 2

I do own a firearm and I do care about the 2nd amendment. I live in Los Angeles and there is a lot of crime here so it's important for me to have some kind of protection if I am robbed. I do believe that guns are way to easy to come by. I mean look at the two biggest school shootings in the last 10 years (Virginia Tech, Columbine). Three people who were way to mentally out of wack to be able to have a firearm. I think they need to do phycological testing in order to determine if someone is mentally stable enough to own a gun. I also think that they need to up the penalties for selling guns to minors (there is absolutely no reason why a teenager needs a gun).

Answer 3

Chi Guy, don't you find it really funny considering the cons on these boards actually think they are going to fight our law enforcement and government if for some reason that is whipped up in their con minds the government actually decides to come after them? I mean do they sound ridiculous or what thinking they are going to hold up in their house like some Ruby Ridge dumb hick and shoot the law enforcement and then win. Their fears cause them to lose brain cells which limits their thinking ability. I think their brains are made of straw. They actually believe their little AK 47 is going to do some kind of good against a military force that has a thousand times more fire power then they have in their house. Sorry cons, but your government is going to have the upper hand in your battle. Time to get a new strategy to re-democratize your country. This time try using some brains and brain power to outsmart our government, you might actually have a chance if you would use the brains God gave you for a change.
The fact remains however, that we should be concerned with all of our Constitutional rights, not just the 2nd amendment. Without the 1st amendment or the 4th and 5th amendment, you may as well live in a police state just like the neo-cons would like us to.

Answer 4

England took away everyones right to own a firearm. They were rewarded with a 100% increase in firearm related crimes. http://timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article2317307.ece

Every U.S. state which has passed right to carry laws has seen sharp reductions in crime.

What liberal democrats can't seem to understand is that the authors of the constitution didn't wait till the 6th or 7th amendment, or even the 4th or 5th, they made the right to bear arms number 2 on their list. These gentlemen weren't some idiots who write anonymously from their mamas basement, but some very bright guys who would have todays liberals shot as traitors.

Answer 5

Yes, the 2nd Amendment, the 4th, we as Americans should care for and respect our entire Constitution.

I cared about the 2nd Amendment even when I didn't have a firearm.

Answer 6

Yes, you should. I do not own a firearm of any kind. I am a vehement 2nd Amendment supporter. The 2nd Amendment is one of the most important rights that was explicitly outlined in the Constitution.

Answer 7

Absolutely! In fact, the 2nd amendment is the only reason I don't NEED to have a gun!!!!

If having guns were illegal, criminals would assume I didn't have one, and then I really WOULD need one to protect myself. Since guns are now legal, I can get away without needing one, because the criminals don't know whether I might have one.

So, if you repeal the 2nd Amendment, you create two types of criminals. Because you've embolden the thugs, but you've also forced normally law abiding citizens like me to go out and buy a gun to protect ourselves.

Answer 8

As a citizen of the United States you are promised rights and all of them should be treasured. If people stop caring about what freedoms they have then soon the govenment will just easily be able to snatch them out from under us. Look at the patriot act and the religion reforms in schools and such, all encroachment on our rights.

Answer 9

Yes. because if I didn't have the nads to defend my own life and freedom it would make it more important that I supported the right of decent people to be armed so they could protect me. If a decent person at Virginia Tech owned a gun and had it with him when that freak opened fire he could have saved many lives. Too bad liberals won't let people defend each other. It causes innocent people to get killed...

Answer 10

Your logic is flawed.
You are assuming that there aren't people in America who are yellow enough to give up their rights for freedom.
If terrorists hate us for our freedom, wouldn't that be doing exactly what they want?
So in this situation terrorists and Bush have the same intentions: for America to grovel under the protective wing of the federal government giving up your freedom for a lousy promise of security.