Gun Control Laws

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This paper provides an overview of the Second Amendment and gun control in the United States. The paper presents arguments in support of more sensible gun control legislation. An assessment of current and future trends is followed by a summary of the research in the conclusion.

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"It is also important to point out that when the Second Amendment was enacted, the militia represented the state's exclusive instrument of armed force. "Police forces did not exist until the early nineteenth century" (Bogus 486). The ASA also notes that after the Civil War debates in Congress regarding the nature of citizenship affirmed the need to protect the individual right of African Americans in the South to keep and bear arms for self-defense. Today, ASA argues that the individual right to keep and bear arms guaranteed in the Second Amendment is not absolute, just like the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and assembly. "Unlike some other gun rights organizations, ASA believes reasonable people may have genuine differences of opinion regarding the application of the right of gun ownership, thus leaving the door open for "sensible gun laws" that are constitutional" (Cutter 2)."

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