Does The Constitution Grant The Right Of All Americans To Own And Carry firearms?

[tokerjoe]

i like chris rock's idea, everyone can have a gun but bullets are $10,000 apiece.

that said, i'm from a city in the northeast, i have never and probably will never go hunting.

i also have a felony and drug conviction so i can't get a license even if i wanted one =*(

[dikfore63]

As several people have said, the point was to defend ourselves from the government should it no longer serve the people. Nowhere does it say you can have a conceiled weapon though. Any one who wants to carry a gun shhould be able to but it should be out in the open.

[Kyle E. Coyote]

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Articles I and III of the Constitution state that anything that we as states or citizens are not specifically prohibited to do, we can do. The Constitution doesn't tell us what we can do, just what we can't.

[Goat Gosselin]

i know that a few years ago in Canada that the gov't here made gun registration mandatory and every year they have done a study and there crime rate (crimes with weapons) have not reduced, but i think they have went up over time. and most people committing crimes dont use a registered weapon. i know this doesnt directly have to do with the topic but it kinda tied in with one of the posts

[Randal Graves]

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Do you have any facts that say it is good for half the population to have assault rifles? I'm pretty sure that the countries with the highest numbers of assault rifles per capita owned by private citizens also have the highest murder rates. If that is the case, then shouldn't assault rifles be banned?

[dikfore63]

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Well that is just silly. The Constitution does not say we cant have sex with a hot 16 year old or drive 140mph in a school zone either, yet those are illegal. The Constitution does not just list what we cant do it also lists what the US Government cant do and one of them is infringing on the right of the people to have firearms.

The wording doesn't stop the government from making everyone who wants to carry a gun from having to keep it in a backpack or on their back so it would be hard to brandish in anger...

[daveyeti]

and they were joking, but I'm not.
The purpose of the Second Amendment is to protect us from governments (federal, the states' and foreign ones). The only way that purpose can be served is by allowing us to own the biggest guns and blowin'-uppin'est bombs we can afford.

The Second Amendment doesn't give a shit about your little handguns or even your Uzis.

If the Second Amendment was alive, it would be embarrassed that gun lovers are using it to try to keep their little dick-extender guns, only to have them locked up in a safe at home so that if the British do ever decide to reclaim their colony, you're too busy with the combination to keep from getting shot.

[Randal Graves]

^^^^some real high quality gun nut psycho babble right there. If you really want people to consider taking your seriously, you should avoid starting off saying everyone should be able own any weapon they can afford to buy.

[daveyeti]

I'm far from a gun nut. I don't own one, never have and don't have any interest in owning one.

I just think that people that trot out the Second Amendment to hold onto guns that kill individuals instead of people acting on behalf of an oppressive regime are doing the Constitution a disservice.

sorry if i wasn't clear - i'm kinda drunk

[beastley]

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