The Second Amendment

Chapter 7. The Second Amendment: The Right to Bear Arms and the resultant issue of Gun Control from the book Constitutional Law & the CJ system by J. Scott Harr Cases to look up on Google: District of Columbia vs Heller NRA vs Chicago McDonald vs Chicago This is your opportunity to address your interpretation of the WORDS of the US Constitution. “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” There are places where the commas are located differently, but the key words are the same. Interpreting this right has often followed a precedent that it is not absolute, as some will believe. Please use the cases above, which are recent, and compare the meaning today with what the meaning might have veen 225 years ago when France, Spain and England surrounded our borders, Native Americans were now armed and being pushed off their lands, and guns were owned and a necessity by any person for protection. In your written essay of 400-500 words, state your position WITH REFERENCES (minimum 3 including the book). no opinions of your own, as to whether citizens need this amendment as written, today. We all understand the need for police and military to carry firearms, allow permitted firearms for armored car companies for example, but where do the words clash, if they so, with common sense.