Protecting the 2^nd Amendment

The Constitution of the United States is put in place for our guidance and protection. The document, more specifically the Bill of Rights, gives us personal freedoms unlike any other in the world. One of the pillars within the Bill of Rights is the right of law-abiding Americans to keep and bear arms.  Quite simply, the second amendment provides the security for every American to know their government will not and can not disarm them. An unarmed society is one prone to be plagued by tyranny.  The freedom this country was founded on is protected by the centerpiece of the Bill of Rights, known as the Second Amendment. 

As a staunch advocate of the Second Amendment, I understand the need to uphold freedom for each and every citizen of the United States. Over the years, legislators have chipped away at the Constitution as a whole, and more specifically, the Second Amendment. Americans have had their freedoms restricted and controlled by administrations past and present, all under the pretext of protecting victims’ rights.  I know, however, that additional laws and restrictions upon our freedoms rarely protect those who need it. Instead, law abiding citizens are left defenseless while criminals, by definition, will ignore laws regardless of the penalty, and prey upon an exposed public.  

Defending all of our freedoms, especially the right to bear arms, is something I have done all of my life. In order to maintain our country’s heritage as a constitutional democratic republic, we must abide by and preserve the freedoms granted to us at our nation’s inception.