Essays on 2nd Amendment

Since 1791 the 2nd amendment (The Right to Bear Arms) has been allowed which was a debate that focused on whether protects a private right for citizens to keep and bear arms or a right that can only be used through militia organizations like the National Guard. This Amendment was not granted until long after the Bill of Rights was adopted. While states in the Funding era regulated firearms, blacks were often forbidden on the government rolls. The guns laws that we follow today are more ...

The Second Amendment in the constitution of the United States of America protects what has been, and will seemingly continue to be a hot topic in American Politics. Throughout American history it has been debated as to what it means to have the right to keep and bear arms, as well as what the scope of that right encompasses. The debate is cyclical, in that it will appear as an important agenda subject, be discussed, and then fade away for another time. Within the past 50 years in American ...

The Second Amendment is viewed by many as Americas first freedom. The United States of America is one of the only countries to have an Amendment regarding the right to bear arms. However, it has been surrounded by controversy, especially in the recent years. The Second Amendment is the butt of discussion among all walks of life, and as more shootings are occurring, tensions are rising and people are beginning to question if the Second Amendment does more harm than good, and if we should alter ...

Gun control reform and mass shootings within the United States has been a hot topic for several years and has been one of the major points of contention among the Government leaders. The research and literature addressing gun culture throughout the years within America is vast. Quantitative analyses, ethnographic work, as well as comparative work has been thus far produced by scholars; however, debates regarding gun culture, mass shootings, and gun reform in the U.S. still occur frequently and ...

The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution (and how it applies to gun ownership rights) has been subject to controversy and multiple interpretations. The specific text of the amendment is as follows: “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.” The text has been interpreted in different ways by different groups of people throughout history. Supporters of personal gun ownership ...

The ‘tyranny of the majority’ refers to the political situation where the majority of an electorate is able place its own interests above all, at the expense of the minority groups. This is often the case with direct democracy as there is only ever going to be one side of the argument that succeeds unlike in a proportional system. There are several ways the US constitution seeks to prevent this, such as the bill of rights, federalism and the series of checks and balances put in place within ...

There are dozens of high profile social issues and topics of unrest. Immigration, abortion, international relations and the current state of American politics. There are a lot of opinions, a lot of agendas and a lot of heated debated. One issue that has been and remains a serious, controversial and regularly argued issue is gun ownership, gun regulations and gun rights in the United States of America, including the debate regarding gun control in the 21st century. There is no question that ...

Ever since the 2015-2016 election period, the political culture of the United States has been turned on its head, coinciding with the eruption of a hotbed of issues brought to the forefront of debates and discussions by mainstream news media. Never have the philosophies of Hobbes, and his contemporary Locke, been more relevant as crises emerge more and more frequently as time goes on. One such issue that has taken the United States by storm is that of gun control, which in light of recent ...

In the United States, guns play a major role in our culture. Guns helped to free us when England was in control of the country during revolutionary times. When this happened the Constitution was created. Within the Constitution is the Second Amendment, which protects the right to own guns to the people of the United States. The problem with this amendment is that it is not clear about who can really own guns and whether a group of civilians in a state is legally "a well regulated militia" . ...