Recently a federal court in Illinois ruled a person's right to carry a concealed weapon was not protected under the second Amendment.
Colorado, however, recently refused to reconsider a past ruling that says the state's ban on concealed carry is unconstitutional. So which is it?
This contradiction leads to an interesting prediction. Will the supreme court rule whether concealed carry is protected under the second amendment?
Whether they do is beside the point. Our right to concealed carry should not be under question and the bickering back and forth regarding banning certain weapons and restricting our usage of them is ludicrous.
The rights given to every U.S. citizen by the constitution are exactly that, rights. Meaning they are understood truths that every citizen has the opportunity to take advantage of. If you don't want to carry a concealed weapon, so be it. Don't want to own a gun? Fair enough. I can't force anyone to own a gun, and the government shouldn't force restrictions upon ownership. America was not founded by a government who restricts their citizens of obvious rights.
It is already a vetted process to receive a permit for a handgun, so owning one to carry and protect yourself is logical.
Having a weapon close by to protect your family is something that should forever remain an option if you so choose.
The government can have my taxes, but they can't something from me that is supported and written in the second amendment.
Regardless of how advanced our guns have become, banning assault weapons is ludicrous.
First, the misconception of what exactly an assault weapon is needs to be set straight. An AR-15, what CBS calls "the most popular rifle in America," is not an assault weapon. They are designed as semi-automatic weapons for civilian use.
The "AR" stands for ArmaLite, the company that first began developing them in the 1950s.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines an assault rifle as a rifle "designed for military use." The AR-15 are not designed for that purpose.
The government can't and does not need a hand in everything. Universal background checks are also a logical and obvious necessity to owning a gun, but limiting the amount of bullets in a clip just seems petty.
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