2nd Amendment Pros And Cons

People argue that taking away these guns from normal abiding citizens does not stop criminals from obtaining these weapons. (Zimring 441) Nobody knows if this is true or not, but it is a legitimate argument for those who want the ability to own guns. They also argue that criminals would be less likely to commit a crime if they know that the victim is armed. (Zimring 441) This could be true as well, but there have been no dramatic difference in the number of deaths without or with the laws. Some also argue that gun control laws take away people’s second amendment right to bear arms.

Following the American Revolution, colonists faced the issue of creating a new form of government and order for their newly created country. Delegates from each state, excluding Rhode Island, met in Philidelphia in 1787 to draft the document that would come to be known as the Constitution. Representatives made it their purpose to create a government that would be fair for everyone; the North and South, the educated and uneducated, the rich and poor. After a closer examination of the Articles of Confederation, delegates disregarded the Articles, following the failure of their original form of government. The Articles of Confederation was thought of as a failure after Shay’s Rebellion; an act of dissent by Daniel Shay in which farmers lost their

The Constitution was set into motion in The United States of America in 1789. There were many important differences between the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, most importantly how they both organized the laws. The Articles of Confederation made a legislature, different to the eventual two branch system created by the Constitution. Voting power was given to states based on committees and each state had one vote in the Articles of Confederation. The Constitution allowed one vote for each legislative representative.

Even before the Treaty of Paris, American politicians and lawyers adopted the Articles of Confederation on November 15, 1777, with a unanimous ratification on March 1, 1781. Even before Britain acknowledged that the 13 colonies were an independent state, Congress established a government. However, the Articles of Confederation, written by Democratic-Republican John Dickinson, gave the individual states too much power and the central government too little. This did not give Congress, the sole “organ” of the central government, the power to enforce any national law. Furthermore, the national government had a problem with funding.

The documents they drafted were contracts that defined the powers of government, as did the old colonial charters, but they drew their authority from the people, not from the royal seal of a distant king. As written documents the state constitutions were intended to represent a fundamental law, superior to the transient whims of ordinary legislation. Most of these documents included bills of rights, specifically guaranteeing long-prized liberties against later legislative encroachment. Most of them required the annual election of legislators, who were thus forced to stay in touch with the mood of the people. All of them deliberately created weak executive and judicial branches, at least by present-day standards.

The three branches of government (executive, legislative and judicial) have respective powers that enable each of them to "check and balance" the other two branches. This was done because the drafters of the constitution didn 't want any one person or group of persons to have too much power. An example of checks and balances in action is how Congress voted overwhelmingly to override a veto by President Obama for the first time, passing into law a bill that would allow the families of those killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to sue Saudi Arabia for any role in the

For instance, he stated that “It’s been said that the Second Amendment is America’s first freedom. That’s because the Right to Keep and Bear Arms protects all our other rights” (“Second Amendment rights”). Many people in the United States felt that the government should have strict laws to purchase guns, but the second amendment clearly stated that citizens have rights to purchase guns to protect themselves. Most people also believed that by purchasing guns, you can protect your family from people attacking you. Guns have many advantages in the United States and it depends on how people use or handling it.

People that are fearful of mass shootings or tragedies caused by weapons have to realize that guns are needed to stop the tragedy weather it is a regular citizen or a police officer. Guns are not bad it is people that make them bad. Instead of banning guns catching criminals would be much more efficient. Gun laws are not going to solve problems they will only create more. Weather guns are used for protection or hunting or just going to the shooting range they have been around in the US for centuries and always will be.

Due to the fact that not all hunters claim all of the animal remains produced from big game hunting, many hunters give the meat, bones, and hide to local communities for their usage. The revenue produced from hunting goes back to the local community that the animal was taken from. All trophy hunters pay many fees for a big game hunt, but considering that most hunters do not take home the entire animal they killed, anything that remains from the hunt is left for the benefit of the community (Big Game). “Game laws should be drawn primarily in the interest of the whole people, keeping steadily in mind certain facts that ought to be self-evident to every one above the intellectual level of those well-meaning persons who apparently think that all shooting is wrong.…” (Roosevelt). This excerpt shows that not all hunters go out to shoot an animal and leave it for dead, the animal is not wasted, it is actually spread throughout the communities for the locals use.

The goal for this document was to have a stronger and powerful central government but still had its limits in order have a healthy country. It was meant to replace the Articles of Confederation as well. The Constitution “provides important limitations on the government that protect the fundamental rights of United States citizens.” and natural rights is a big part of it because it gives people the freedom to be who they want to be by all citizens being equal to each other. Once this document was written, it led to having a stronger government, in which it split into 3 branches being legislative, judicial, and executive.

While a man from the NRA, Brian Calabrese, said self-defense is used in various ways, the thought of a panicked person with a gun during a crime is not beneficial. From my perspective, I don’t want to live in a society where the at any point in time, I should be ready to shoot a gun. The arms race which Kelly Sampson was talking about, also made me think about how different society would be if the arms race ensued. Most of society would have to adapt to the norm of owning a gun, which would force the criminals to get stronger and higher capacity firearms. In this hypothetical society, I believe there would be a much higher death and crime rate.

The anti-federalists were those who do not support the new constitution. The first five states to agree with the constitution where: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, and Connecticut. In February 1788 a compromise was stated that in assurance that amendments would be imminently proposed. George Washington became the first president of the United States. The Bill of Rights guarantees each individual certain basic protects.

When Dahl first begins the book, on the very first page, he talks about a key point everyone should know. The democratic form of government would not have worked, so a republic form of government was much needed. The whole ideal of the the Democratic Party is that that do care about how much money someone has, religion they follow, and arms. The often tend to help minorities, as well as groups that that are unpopular. Republicans on the other hand focus more on helping defensive issues, gaining profit, bringing more money for military, and fully support the police force.

Many states can tax each other’s products. This makes America seem like 13 separate nations.” This statement is partially true because the new Constitution fixed this flaw by prohibiting states to tax imports, giving the nationals government full power to regulate trade across the states. The final most important mistake of the new Constitution was that it did not include a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights gave Americans basic rights as a citizen of the United States and showed them that the government can’t take away these natural rights. Without the Bill of Rights, the government could do whatever they wanted to the citizens because the Constitution did not state the rights of the American people.

After declaring of independence from Britain in 1777, the representatives, who participated the Constitutional Congress meetings in 1774, formed together to create the Congress. Power within the Congress believed that creating an official document, a constitution specifically, will create a timeless guide for a beneficial and successful government system for the United States. Not only will that document bring peace between all of the current thirteen-states, but for also the future of America. The first constitution that was officially agreed on was the Articles of Confederation. the Article of Confederation, however, was not as successful as many had thought during the first time it was written.