The Right to Bear Arms

Jordan Simke

12 April 2016

POS1041

Professor Roda

The Right to Bear Arms

The right to bear arms is guaranteed in the constitution by the Second Amendment. Liberals are looking to amend the constitution any way they can to stop citizens from owning guns. They want to ban handguns or at least restrict sales, and furthermore want to ban sales of semi-automatic rifles. Studies have shown that gun control cannot stop people from committing the crime. In spite of the clarity of this amendment there has been numerous, and consistent attacks on this right. While developing the system of government, our Founding Father, feared that a standing army controlled by a central government would be helpless to the people in time of need. That the right to own and bear arms to protect one’s self would be more efficient and cost effective than a standing militia. Banning guns would also play a role in the freedom to hunt, or to go sport shooting.

        Gun control would not reduce the amount of crimes caused by guns or the fatality of these crimes. Firearms kill sixty percent of all murder victims in the United States. Firearms injure another seventy thousand people per year. Medicare paid 14 billion dollars last year for injuries involving firearms (Lindermann 1). Among all the robberies and assaults, the handgun is the most common gun due to the concealability of a handgun. That statement is the thought that causes people to assume the banishing of the Second Amendment would be the problem solver in the cause of the deaths and injuries associated with weapons. The evidence behind this thought has been proven to be wrong numerous times, but the Second Amendment is still receiving continuous scrutiny by liberals.