The second amendment to the US Constitution states:
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.
This amendment provides individuals the right to keep and bear arms - i.e. weapons including guns. There is current debate as to what individual rights to gun ownership are actually conveyed by the amendment:
One opinion is that the Second Amendment did not apply to individuals; rather, it recognized the right of a state to arm its militia.
A second opinion is that the Second Amendment recognized some limited individual right. However, this individual right could only be exercised by members of a functioning, organized state militia while actively participating in the organized militia's activities.
The third, known as the "standard model", is that the Second Amendment recognized the personal right of individuals to keep and bear arms.
In the case District of Columbia vs. Heller, the 2010 US Supreme Court pretty much upheld the "standard model" ruling that the Second Amendment protects an individual right.
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.
That the "right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed". Basically it means that law abiding US citizens are allowed to own firearms.
The second amendment garuntees the right to bear arms.
It grants citizens the right to vote at eighteen.
The right to bear arms
No they are Conservative. They fight to protect the Second amendment. ( The right of an individual to bear arms.)
The second amendment allows two things: -The right of the people to possess and own firearms. -The right of the states to raise militias. Such an amendment was meant to secure the rights of Americans from their own government, and to protect the country incase of a foreign, hostile invasion.
The second amendment is the right to bear arms. Which means you have the right to own a weapon to protect yourself. You could then, choose to draw a fire arm.
This amendment speaks to state militias and the right to bear arms. Added: In a recent Supreme Court ruling the right of individuals to keep and bear arms (at least at the Federal level) was how the Amendment was interpreted.
The Second Amendment is there to protect our right listed in the first Amendment.
The Second Amendment has nothing to do with hunting, and there is no right to hunt declared anywhere in the Constitution.
To protect yourself!
A gun.
So ordinary people can protect themselves.
Second Amendment
Second amendment I don't think that the second amendment gives the right to keep and bear arms. People already had that right. The second amendment states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infirnged.
The Second Amendment states the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.