keep and bear arms

The web is ablaze with discussion and opinions about people in America who keep and bear arms - guns in particular. Individuals like Neal Knox are in favor of gun rights, and organizations like the Brady Campaign are in favor or gun control. Irrespective of the U.S. Supreme Court decision in D.C. vs Heller, there will continue to be discussion and disagreement about the right to keep and bear arms in America.

The controversy is largely focused on what is meant by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. It's fueled by three general segments of the political spectrum - those who believe in an individual right to keep and bear arms, those who promote gun control, and those who believe that a right to keep and bear arms is only associated with being part of a militia.

Central to the controversy is the understanding of whether the U.S. Constitution grants a right, or simply guarantees as one of our civil rights our natural right of self defense. Also central to the controversy is tens of thousands of firearms related deaths each year in the United States.

Indeed a lack of freedom in America is troubling, and there are some that question the ethics of gun control. Abuse of freedom that results in thousands of deaths each year is equally troubling.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “keep and bear arms”

• Yeah, We Get That A Lot

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 129
  Blood In The Turnstiles: A year ago, my native home town of Atlanta decided that people with CCW’s were ok to ride mass transit carrying their weapons. And just like every other time the law abiding are allowed to exercise their rights, nothing happened. It’s almost like the anti-gun forces are lying to us.
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• Keeping Pandora’s Box Sealed

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 750
  By Ilya Shapiro In today’s Washington Times , Ken Klukowski and Ken Blackwell co-authored an op-ed about McDonald v. Chicago and the Privileges or Immunities Clause titled, “ A gun case or Pandora’s box? ” If that title sounds familiar, it should. Josh Blackman and I have co-authored a forthcoming article ...
  1 week ago

• Alaska Second Amendment Patriots Rally

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 176
  Anchorage, AK --(AmmoLand.com)- You, the citizens of the great State of Alaska, are cordially invited to participate in A Rally of Patriots in support of our unalienable right to keep and bear arms as affirmed by our constitution! This rally will take place on Monday April 19th, 2010, statewide, in a city near you. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Nebraska Firearms Owners Association Forms Partnership with CCRKBA

  
  AmmoLand.com — Authority: 605
  Nebraska Firearms Owners Association forms partnership with Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Nebraska Firearms Owners Association Lincoln, NE, – - (AmmoLand.com) - Andreas Allen President of the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association (NFOA) announced today that the NFOA has formed an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Zionist Jews in New York Congress, Mayor Bloomberg and Atty. General Holder Move Against Second Amendment

  
  Pragmatic Witness — Authority: 115
  Senator Gillibrand and Representative McCarthy have introduced the Gun Trafficking Prevention Act of 2009. Ostensibly designed to prosecute gun traffickers, the bill would also deny the Second Amendment to anybody on the so-called terror watch list. The legislation is supported by New York City Mayor Michael ...
  3 weeks ago

• When Seconds Count….

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 129
  …The police are putting on you hold for an hour. …[T]he afternoon of May 5, at Phoenix Park near Turner Field, Jackie Gordon watched a middle-aged man in a yellow jumpsuit chasing children on the playground while exposing himself. Gordon grabbed her cellphone and dialed the familiar number for help: 911. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why You Can’t Keep Guns Out of the Hands of the Bad Guys

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 129
  They’re just too damn easy to make. Like, for instance, this home-made, full-auto shotgun. EMBED-Home-Made Belt-Fed Shotgun – Watch more free videos Yeah, it has feed problems. Yeah, I bet it’s not as rugged or as portable as a mil-spec unit of equivalent power and speed. But it’s a home-made ...
  4 weeks ago

• God Kills Sarah Brady’s Kittens

  
  ricketyclick — Authority: 129
  So Ambulance Driver went to Blogarado, a blogmeet/shootfest. And took pictures. And told stories. Then there was this: Saturday dawned bright and early with KatyBeth sitting astride my chest and patting me gently on the face, saying, “Wake up, Daddy! It’s time to go shoot!” However, no pictures of Katy ...
  4 weeks ago

• We are not a Democracy, we are a Republic

  
  The Liberty Papers — Authority: 513
  This is as succinct, and as masterful a description of the relationship between the rights of man, and the government of a free state, as I have yet seen. “I cannot, and will not, consent that the majority of any republican State may, in any way, rightfully restrict the humblest citizen of the United States in the ...
  4 weeks ago

• Obama revives talk of U.N. gun control

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 131
  NRA guests warn international treaty would strip 2nd Amendment rights Posted: November 14, 2009 7:05 pm Eastern By Drew Zahn © 2009 WorldNetDaily United Nations headquarters Gun rights supporters are up in arms over a pair of moves the White House made last month to ...
  4 weeks ago

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