gun rights

The issue of gun rights is discussed on numerous websites and blogs like National Gun Rights and Gun Rights Advocates, to name but a few. The focus of the discussion is countering gun control advocates in order to preserve the right to keep and bear arms. The message is generally the same - it's not about guns so much as it's about freedom.

The basis for the idea of gun "rights" is the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, where it states, "...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Like the rest of the Bill of Rights (the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution), the 2nd Amendment is a description of what the government can't do against "the people." And, the idea of gun rights is embodied in state constitutions as well.

Gun rights in America is an emotional as well as a historical issue. The American Revolution was started when General Gage marched against the armories of the colonists. Southern states passed laws against firearm ownership by former slaves, and guns were illegally confiscated from law-abiding people as part of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.

Many recognize that the reason gun rights are such a hotly debated topic is simply because we only have the rights we fight for. Others argue convincingly in favor of gun rights by showing statistically that more guns equals less crime.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “gun rights”

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• Newtown Parents Join Chicago-Area Democrats In Push To Ban Standard-Capacity Ammunition Magazines

  
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  “Just wait for next week. 10 round mag limit bills and semi-auto ban bills may surface next week. They will pull out all the stops to distract us from the fight on CCW. I wouldn’t be surprised that they USE the traumatized parents of Connecticut to push their agenda. Its sad that the traumatized Connecticut ...
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• Denver Cops Arrest Italian Shotgun Manufacturer as a Terrorist

  
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  Kurt Nimmo | Owner of one of the most expensive shotgun companies in the world turned in under Taxis on Patrol program.
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• All Semi-Automatic Pistols Sold In California to Require “Micro Stamp” Ballistic Identification

  
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  Mac Slavo | All new semi-automatic firearms sold in the State of California will require a unique microstamp on every shell ejected when a gun is fired.
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• @StrongTea1776, @AGUgrizzlies Rally to defeat NYSAFE Act

  
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      Richmond County Tea Party Patriots and Gun Rights Across America yesterday held a rally in the rain to defeat Gov. Cuomo’s unconstitutional and ill-conceived NYSAFE Act. Tea Party Patriots member and American Grizzlies United / Organize4Palin NY State Coordinator, Ron Devito spoke at this rally, beginning ...
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• Live: Staten Island Defeat NYSAFE Act Rally

  
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• IRS intimidation scandal proves Second Amendment needed to stop government tyranny

  
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  Mike Adams | In the face of the outrageous IRS intimidation scandal now sweeping across America, gun control advocates are changing their tune.
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• And Liberals Are Shocked

  
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  A recent poll indicated that 29% of the American population think that an armed revolution in order to protect liberties might be necessary in the next few years, with another 5% unsure of whether or not it will be so. And Liberals are shocked, scared, and appalled by this. Thoughts that Americans might retake our ...
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• Establishment Media Attacks Rand Paul for Saying Globalists Plotting Against Constitution

  
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  Kurt Nimmo | Dismisses opposition to Small Arms Treaty as "black helicopter stuff."
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• Quote of the day—Richard Burgess

  
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  The only focus and obvious intention of releasing the search warrants is to focus the narrative on the firearms instead of the actual legitimate questions about the murderer and his history and things that can actually be evaluated and fixed without endangering the rest of us in the process. But this did not stop ...
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• Steve Pieczenik Assassinated

  
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• Montgomery County asks residents to hand over their guns

  
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  The Examiner | Montgomery County residents handed over 111 guns, 11 BB guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and a grenade at Saturdays statewide gun turn-in day.
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• Pennsylvania youth games cancelled due to rival gun rallies

  
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  Hundreds of youngsters werent able to play scheduled youth baseball league games Saturday because of competing rallies by groups on either side of the gun control debate in the community park thats home to the leagues fields, an official said. Dan OConnell, president of Morrisville Little League, said five of the ...
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• PRO-SECOND AMENDMENT MOM SHAKES IT UP

  
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• The Mother’s Day Rally & Counter Rally

  
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• "On November 7th, his administration gleefully voted at the UN for a renewed effort to pass the..."

  
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  “On November 7th, his administration gleefully voted at the UN for a renewed effort to pass the ‘Small Arms Treaty.’ But after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut — and anti-gun hysteria in the national media reaching a fever pitch — there’s no doubt President Obama and his anti-gun pals believe the timing ...
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• Obama Admin FAIL: The Pirate Bay Takes Over Distribution of Defense Distributed Censored 3D Printable Gun

  
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• NJ Senate Open Mic :Confiscate, Confiscate, Confiscate

  
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  The problem with compromising your principles means that you have to give up some of them, and for the past 45 years, GOP leadership has been willing to hand off our 2nd amendment rights in exchange for nothing more than, at best,  attempting to quiet down the chattering class of the left. Those of us 50 and older ...
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