Amendment 2 - Right to bear arms
Amendment 2 of the Bill of Rights says
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.
infringe vb 1: violate, transgress 2: encroach, trespass
In the context of the Constitution, phrases like "shall not be infringed," "shall make no law," and "shall not be violated"
Recently San Francisco voted to outlaw the sale of handguns in the city and to outlaw ownership of handguns in the city. The citizens are to turn their handguns in to the police by April 1st of 2006.
Address one of the questions below in what you think of this law.
- Do you think that all cities should adopt this law?
- Do you think the criminals will abide by this law?
- Do you think crime will decrease?
- Will crime now increase against the law abiding person?
- Should this law be contested to the Supreme Court as being unconstitional?
posted by A Second Opinion at
11/12/2005
17 Comments:
I think that this law should not be outlawed because some people live in dangerous places and need guns for protection. Some people, on the other hand, should not be entrusted with any type of weapon! So this law may be good. In a way it's a double edge sword. Personally, this law doesn't really matter to me. I live in a safe neighborhood.
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Anonymous, at Monday, November 14, 2005 11:29:00 AM
I don't think ALL cities should adopt this law. Amendment 2 says that we have a right to bear arms. There are lots of people that own guns including me. It's protection. I know that all people don't abide by the law and use their guns for bad things, but that doesn't mean everyone should be punished for other peoples actions.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:20:00 AM
No, I do not think that all cities should adopt this law because many people can't live without them. Some people sell them at shows and stores, and some hunt with them. Also, people use them for protection. If you sell them at a store, like Academy's for example, then they shouldn't take them away because that is how the get their paycheck. I should know, because my dad works at a sporting good store similar to that. They don't go around selling guns to criminals. They make sure every person who they sell the gun to will use it responsably. My point is that not everyone uses guns to kill people, so they shouldn't be outlawed.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:21:00 AM
I dont think the law should be adopted by all cities. The reason I think that is because some people need to keep their guns because they need somthing to protect their selves with. I also think that law is good because criminals would have to turn in their guns and less people would get hurt.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:29:00 AM
Not all cities should adopt this law. Because if someone was to break into your house ,and you don't have a handgun to protect yourself then you are dead. People who want to ban guns they are not thinking of what is going to happen when or if ever they are going to be attacked or robbed. People who live in big cities or dangerous ones like the one I live next to which is ,Gladewater, are most likely to be attacked. The ones that live in big cities like New York or Chicago are going to be attacked or car jacked.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:36:00 AM
I don't think ALL cities should adopt this law either because people use guns for protection. If you ban guns from ALL cities then their is a big chance people will go out and buy knives and kill each other with those too but, Amendment 2 does say we have the right to bear arms.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:41:00 AM
I really dont think that all citys should adopt this law.I also dont think the criminals will abide by this law. I think that people shuld have leagal rights to own a handgun only with papers.So that is how I feel about what I have said above!!
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:41:00 AM
I think that this law should be alowed in big cities were there is a high crime rait. In a place like Texas, no. For some of us that live on a farm, what if coyotes came after your cows or horses you couldn't do anything about it. We need guns down here but in a big city like LA, they probably don't.
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Anonymous, at Wednesday, November 16, 2005 8:48:00 AM
I don't think people should adopt this law, I own a gun my self and I'm not plaining to hand it over any time soon. Plus crimanals don't obey the law now so what makes you think that they are going to start now. "The Right to bear arms" is my favorite Amendment. I think there will be more fights if they make us give up our guns.
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 7:43:00 AM
I do not think that all cities should adopt this law. If they do then poeople that live in dangerous places will have no way to protect themselves against bad people. But then again, if all states pass this law bad people will not be able to shoot other people unless they break the law. If they break the law then they will go to prison. There are all kinds of ups and downs to this law. But if some people have to give up their guns they will go crazy because they will not be able to go hunting. So it's kind of hard to say
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 7:44:00 AM
I do not think the criminals will abide by this law because they're criminals. They had to break the law to get the name "criminal." Why would they give up their guns when they have already broken other laws? I think they will hide them and use them against civilians if the if it becomes a law. Once everyone has givin up their guns they will have no protection.
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 8:50:00 AM
I don't think it should be spread around every where. Just where they have a lot of gangs, groups, muders, and shootings. Also big cities like Dallas, San Antonio, New York, and Washington.
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 8:51:00 AM
Some drugs are band, and guess what? people still find a way to get them and so will people who want to get guns! When you band something more then likley people are going want it more. Just like a little child when you tell them not to get the candy thier sure as heck gonna find it and take it! One way or another people are going to get guns and possibly people who never wanted a gun want one now because they cant have it.
And I think thats what the out come is going to be because of this law.
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 8:59:00 AM
My personal opion is that I think it could go both ways depending on how you are planning to do with it. Like if you are like hunting and stuff then I don't think there is nothing wrong with gun. They should be inlawed for that reason. But if you are useing it to commit violence like in schools and stuff then they should outlaw them. Like when kids take them to school because people make fun of them and stuff this way it should stay outlawed. This is why I think it could go both way on the right to bear arms law.
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 8:59:00 AM
I do not think the crimes will decrease. I just think they will increase, because I think people will just steel or use the handguns they alredy have. They shouldn't ban handguns because what if a person needs one to put in their house as self-defense. What will thay do?
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Anonymous, at Friday, November 18, 2005 11:55:00 AM
I believe that people should be able to have guns because they will have protection. So they can go hunting. That is why I think we should have a gun.
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Anonymous, at Monday, November 21, 2005 7:21:00 AM
i dont think that tis law should abide to every city cause to many people use guns wrong unlike the people that just hunt and use guns for difince
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Anonymous, at Monday, November 28, 2005 12:00:00 PM
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