Gun Rights

The United States Constitution guarantees each citizen the right to bear arms. Today, this means that a law-abiding individual possesses the right to own and use a gun for his or her own protection. Furthermore, the Constitution simply protects the “right to keep and bear arms.” Technically, the right to bear arms can extend to possessing a gun for hunting purposes, hobby purposes, protection purposes, and training purposes. But most importantly, the right to bear arms is a fundamental right that endows each American with the ability to protect self and family from any threat to life, liberty, and property. Our courageous Founding Fathers exercised this right to win their freedom. Now that freedom is what still largely protects us from any tyrannical force that could rise up to devour our freedoms.

Gun rights not only represent a person’s right to protect him or herself, but they represent the essence of the Constitution and its ability to protect and preserve our rights. Implicitly, a law that infringes on the right to bear arms infringes on the Constitution. If legislators and judges allow a law, in favor or gun control, to undermine Constitutional authority, what is to stop them from legislating and ruling in favor of other laws and policies that violate other aspects of the Constitution? Therefore, the issue of gun rights is not simply an issue of each American being able to wield a weapon, hunt on the weekends, and make noise at the gun range.