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Amendment II to the U.S. Constitution
"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." |
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| Cato Institute Center for Constitutional Studies: 2nd Amendment (right to bear arms) |
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An Unintended Consequence of Gun Control, by Benedict D. LaRosa, 16 Aug 2004
"If citizens were free to procure whatever firearms they desired without interference from government, as they should be, then the owners and occupiers of homes and businesses could provide their own high level of security using whatever weapons they considered appropriate ..." |
| Assault Weapons and Assaults on the Constitution, by Ron Paul, 22 Apr 2003 |
Ban People – They Kill, by Paul Craig Roberts, 17 Apr 2007
"Once guns are banned, crime will explode. Households and vulnerable members of society will lose the ability to defend, which will invite more intrusions and attacks. ... Gun prohibition will create a new industry for criminals – gun running and black market sales. Police will conduct stings by posing as black market gun dealers ..." |
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Better Them Than Us, by Scott McPherson, 19 Jan 2004
Related Topics: Brazil, John R. Lott, Jr., United Kingdom |
| Blockbuster Victory for the Second Amendment, by James Bovard, Freedom Daily, Aug 1999 |
Democrats for Guns: Why Kerry Should Stand Up for the Second Amendment, by Ted Rall, 27 Apr 2004
"Democrats ... absurdly argue that the placement of a comma reflects the founders' original intent to limit gun ownership to members of 18th century militias. ... Democrats, however, still need to make the libertarian case. ... Accepting and promising to defend the Constitution as a whole, including the Second Amendment, could jumpstart the return of the American left from the fringe to the mainstream." |
Dissenting Opinion, U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Silveira v. Lockyer [PDF], by Judge Alex Kozinski, 6 May 2003
pp. 2-6
"The able judges of the panel majority are usually very sympathetic to individual rights ... Had they brought the same generous approach to the Second Amendment that they routinely bring to the First, Fourth and selected portions of the Fifth, they would have had no trouble finding an individual right to bear arms." |
New Gun-Control Victims, by Charley Reese, 21 Apr 2007
"The operative fact in that shooting, as is usually the case, was that the only person with a gun was the killer. ... It was, by the way, a gun-control law that guaranteed all of the killer's victims would be unarmed. The law says that you can't have a firearm on a school campus. Well, as you can see, the killer paid no attention to the law." |
Straight Shooting on Gun Control: A Reason debate, by Abigail A. Kohn, Don B. Kates, Wendy Kaminer, and Michael Krauss, May 2005
"... let's talk about those Second Amendment rights that Kohn assures her readers are so clearly secured. As I write, citizens of our nation's capital are fully denied these rights: If they use a firearm to defend themselves against a criminal, they are rewarded with confiscation of their weapon, for only criminals may possess firearms inside the District." |
Testimony of Eugene Volokh on the Second Amendment, Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, by Prof. Eugene Volokh, 23 Sep 1998
UCLA Law School
"In preparing to teach a law school seminar on firearms regulation ... I found that the historical evidence ... overwhelmingly points to one and only one conclusion: The Second Amendment does indeed secure an individual right to keep and bear arms." |
The Bill of Rights: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms, by Jacob G. Hornberger, Freedom Daily, Aug 2004
"The Second Amendment is the American people's ultimate insurance policy against tyranny because government officials know that guns in the hands of the people provide the only practical means by which to resist tyranny ... that a disarmed society almost always becomes an obedient society in the face of omnipotent, tyrannical government." |
| The Gun-Control Tide Is Turning, by Scott McPherson, 4 Aug 2003 |
| Will You Be Safer If Guns Are Banned? Part 1, by Jarret B. Wollstein, Freedom Daily, Jul 1994 |
| Will You Be Safer If Guns Are Banned? Part 2, by Jarret B. Wollstein, Freedom Daily, Aug 1994 |
Second Amendment speaker says gun laws are racist, unconstitutional, by Quinn Bowman, The Athens News, 7 Feb 2005
Related Topics: Reginald G. Jones
"Jones advocated getting rid of mandatory trigger locks and waiting periods for firearms sales because they violate the Second Amendment by restricting a citizen's ability to arm him- or herself. ... Jones argued that one cannot interpret the Second Amendment without seeing it as endorsing the unrestricted use of all firearms." |
The Idea of a Private Law Society, by Hans-Hermann Hoppe, Mises.org Daily Article, 28 Jul 2006
Related Topics: Private Property, Democracy, Government, Law, The State, Taxation
"... in a private law society essentially no restrictions on the private ownership of firearms and other weapons would exist. Everyone's elementary right to engage in self-defense to protect one's life and property against invaders would be sacrosanct, and as one knows from ... experience ... more guns imply less crime." |
Transcript of Tom Selleck and Rosie O'Donnell's NRA Discussion, by Rosie O'Donnell, 25 May 1999
Related Topics: Tom Selleck
"Tom: ... are we a responsible enough society, in terms of television, in terms of guns, in terms of everything else, to be this free? That should frame the debate. My answer unfortunately, in this culture, is 'probably not'. But I'm going to [go] down with the Civil Liberties ship, and all the Bill of Rights, and apply them equally." |
| Books |
Guns: Who Should Have Them?
by David B. Kopel, 1995 |
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Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives with Firearms
by Robert A. Waters, 2002 |
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott, Jr., 1998 |
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The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves with a Firearm
by Robert A. Waters, 1998 |
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The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong
by John R. Lott, Jr., 2003 |
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The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth about Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment
by Richard Poe, 2001 |
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The Tyranny of Gun Control
by Jacob G. Hornberger (Editor, contributor), Richard M. Ebeling (Editor, contributor), The Future of Freedom Foundation, 1997
Shows why gun control poses a threat to liberty. |
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