There is no greater issue that demands a complete respect for Liberty and freedom for the individual than gun ownership. As this issue has at its core a more direct consequence over life and death than any other, it is essential that the importance of gun ownership, as it pertains to individual Liberty, be made clear. So important this issue is to individual liberty that it was incorporated into the Constitution of the United States. Within the Constitution was a distinct provision to allow people to own, possess, and even use firearms. “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.”
Now, while there is over two hundred years of debate about the nature of this Constitutional Amendment, how it is to be interpreted, what its original purpose was, and how to implement in society, one ideal remains constant. To limit the ability to own a gun is to limit the ability to defend one’s self, family, one’s property, and by extension one’s state. In other words, to remove the right to bear arms is to separate the right of survival from an individual. Consequently, as survival is a fundamental right of every human being, the justification to limit this Liberty, the access and ownership of guns, has a greater burden of proof to justify then any other singular issue. For this reason, detractors who would wish to limit or ban the ownership of guns must make a case so overwhelming that it supersedes the very matter of life and death itself. Until that case can be made, I see no cause for accepting any other stance on gun ownership than that which our forefathers had outlined.
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