“The Secret History of Guns”

Will the U.N treaty affect the safety of Americans if it passes?

The United States will be violating the Second Amendment if the U.N.  Passes the treaty. “The Secret History of Guns” shows the back ground of how people in America use guns in order to protect them selves from threats like the klu klux klan, Black Panthers, and intruders. Americans have the right to bear arms to protect themselves because the safety will not be there if someone was to come in your house uninvited with an unregistered weapon and put your family in danger . THE TEXT OF the Second Amendment is maddeningly ambiguous. It merely says, “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.” Yet to each side in the gun debate, those words are absolutely clear. I plan to use this book to show how the history of guns are here to protect us from people trying to harm us.

Gun-rights supporters believe the amendment guarantees an individual the right to bear arms and outlaws most gun control. Hard-line gun-rights advocates portray even modest gun laws as infringements on that right and oppose widely popular proposals—such as background checks for all gun purchasers—on the ground that any gun-control measure, no matter how seemingly reasonable, puts us on the slippery slope toward total civilian disarmament. This attitude was displayed on the side of the National Rifle Association’s former headquarters: THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED. The first clause of the Second Amendment, the part about “a well regulated Militia,” was conveniently omitted. To the gun lobby, the Second Amendment is all rights and no regulation. Although decades of electoral defeats have moderated the gun-control movement’s stated goals, advocates still deny that individual Americans have any constitutional right to own guns. The Second Amendment, in their view, protects only state militias. Too politically weak to force disarmament on the nation, gun-control hard-liners support any new law that has a chance to be enacted, however unlikely that law is to reduce gun violence. For them, the Second Amendment is all regulation and no rights.                                                      Citation

Winkler, Adam. "The Secret History of Guns." The Atlantic. Atlantic, 11 Sept. 2011. Web

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