Amendment II to the U.S. Constitution
"... the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Articles
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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
Better Them Than Us, by Scott McPherson, 19 Jan 2004
Related Topics: Brazil, John R. Lott, Jr., United Kingdom
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."
"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."
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."
"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."
"... 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."
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 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 Court Almost Gets It Right on Guns, by Sheldon Richman, Freedom Daily, Oct 2008
Related Topic: Bill of Rights
Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court majority and minority opinions on the D.C. law that bans handguns in private homes
"Scalia ... reminds us that when the Constitution was drafted, many people feared that the powerful central government would disarm the militias, which at the time comprised all able-bodied white men, in favor of a standing army ... Citing the importance of private gun ownership to a capable militia was meant to allay such fears. But ... the militia reference did not impose a restriction on who has the right to keep and bear arms."
Related Topic: Bill of Rights
Discusses the U.S. Supreme Court majority and minority opinions on the D.C. law that bans handguns in private homes
"Scalia ... reminds us that when the Constitution was drafted, many people feared that the powerful central government would disarm the militias, which at the time comprised all able-bodied white men, in favor of a standing army ... Citing the importance of private gun ownership to a capable militia was meant to allay such fears. But ... the militia reference did not impose a restriction on who has the right to keep and bear arms."
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."
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."
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."
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."
Cartoons
Jason, I told you no squirt guns in the house!, by Bill Amend, FoxTrot, 20 Jul 2008
Books
Guns: Who Should Have Them?
by David B. Kopel, 1995
by David B. Kopel, 1995
- ISBN 0879759585
: Hardcover, Prometheus Books, 1995
Guns Save Lives: True Stories of Americans Defending Their Lives with Firearms
by Robert A. Waters, 2002
by Robert A. Waters, 2002
- ISBN 1559502266
: Paperback, Loompanics Unlimited, 2002
More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws
by John R. Lott, Jr., 1998
by John R. Lott, Jr., 1998
- ISBN 0226493636
: Hardcover, University Of Chicago Press, 1998
- ISBN 0226493644
: Paperback, University Of Chicago Press, 2nd edition, 2000
The Best Defense: True Stories of Intended Victims Who Defended Themselves with a Firearm
by Robert A. Waters, 1998
by Robert A. Waters, 1998
- ISBN 1888952970
: Paperback, Cumberland House Publishing, 1998
The Bias Against Guns: Why Almost Everything You've Heard About Gun Control Is Wrong
by John R. Lott, Jr., 2003
by John R. Lott, Jr., 2003
- ISBN 0895261146
: Hardcover, Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2003
The Founders' Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, by Stephen P. Halbrook, 2008
- ISBN 1566637929
: Hardcover, Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2008
The Seven Myths of Gun Control: Reclaiming the Truth about Guns, Crime, and the Second Amendment
by Richard Poe, 2001
by Richard Poe, 2001
- ISBN 0761525580
: Hardcover, Prima Lifestyles, 2001
- ISBN 0761524258
: Paperback, Three Rivers Press, 2003
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.
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.
- ISBN 1890687006
: Hardcover, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1998
- ISBN 0964044773
: Paperback, Future of Freedom Foundation, 1997