Com 220 Final

Gun, my enemy or my best friend?

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Axia College of University of Phoenix

Gun, my enemy or my best friend?

American history supports the fact that there is no freedom without the use of firearms. During the war of independence if the citizens of this country did not possess any guns, then everybody would be subjects of the crown and not free American citizens. Most of the “men” fighting for this country at the time were poor farm boys with no military skills or experience and outnumbered by their enemies. “At any given time, however, the American forces seldom numbered over 20,000; in 1781 there were only about 29,000 insurgents under arms throughout the country. The war was therefore one fought by small field armies” (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2008, p. 2). Many lives were lost, many people were killed, but they were willing to do that and protected their country’s future by paying the ultimate price for freedom. Therefore, even though people use guns to kill people, it should be still our right to own a gun and protect ourselves. As the history shows, our freedom relies on the dependency of having that right. To support this right and to make it understandable for everybody, it was written as the second amendment of the United States constitution. As stated by the fifth Circuit court (2001),"We hold ... that [the Second Amendment] protects the rights of individuals, including those not then actually a member of any militia or engaged in active military service or training, to privately possess and bear their own firearms, such as the pistol involved here, that are suitable as personal, individual weapons" (¶ 3). Therefore, as each individual in this country has the right to speak freely, then he or she also has the right to bear a gun and protect what is most important, that is life itself. This is...