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Pro-Second Amendment Rights

Pro-Second Amendment Rights. The Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is an individual right, not a right to the State collectively. “A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the People, to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

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Pro-Second Amendment Rights

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  1. Pro-Second Amendment Rights

  2. The Second Amendment • The Second Amendment is an individual right, not a right to the State collectively. • “A well regulated Militia, being necessary for the security of a free State, the right of the People, to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” • A well regulated militia is a sufficient, but not necessary, condition to the exercise of that right • The latter portion “the right of the People…, shall not be infringed.” guarantees individuals the right to bear arms.

  3. Second Amendment Cont. • Modern Militia Act (1958): militia is defined as “all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and… under 45 years of age [and] female citizens… who are members of the National Guard.” • The Act also states that “the classes of the militia are (1) the organized militia… and (2) and the unorganized militia which consists of [all other members].” • The Second Amendment clauses are not contradictory. If understood properly, the main clause(“the right of the People, to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”) gives us the right. The subordinate clause (“A well regulated Militia…”) justifies the right. • The Amendment as a whole, however, is not absolute. It is not rigid, but flexible and subject to regulation. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YY5Rj4cQ50 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJT0m49_Org

  4. Facts/ Statistics • There are approximately 129,000,000 privately owned firearms in the U.S. according to the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin. • Those handguns are used 6.5 million times a year to protect the life of one’s self or another-almost 4x as much as they’re used criminally. For every one (1) life taken by a gun crime, 2,575 (a lot more) are spared thanks to the right to bear arms. • One handgun in over 6,500 is used in a homicide.

  5. Facts/Statistics Cont. • Switzerland, which has a very similar idea our policy of no interference (Gov. allows citizens to protect themselves from criminals and trusts them with fire arms), has some of the lowest crime rates in the world, despite its incredibly high levels of gun ownership. • Switzerland was also nearly untouched by WWII, largely due to the Axis powers’ knowledge of the country’s heavily armed citizens. • The Brady Law, created for the sake of gun control/crime reduction, requires background checks on gun buyers, but only 4 of the 2.3 million total checks initiated a prosecution. How would that have a tangible effect on crime?

  6. Gun Laws and Crime Rates • John Lott, a research scientist at University of Maryland, conducted a study from 1977 to 1992 to find a correlation between restrictions on guns and crime rates in all 3,054 counties in the nation. Lott found, overall, that states with shall-issue laws have nearly half (55%) of the crime rate in other states. • Based on his information, the adoption of shall-issue laws by states was immediately followed by a drop in murder rates by 8%, rapes by 5%, and aggravated assaults by about 7%. • Lott explains this fact with the gradually increasing number of individuals getting permits to use firearms. • A collection of criminals surveyed report that they are more afraid of encountering armed victims than they are of encountering police.

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