twelfth birthday I received my fathers .22 caliber rifle, which he had gotten from my grandfather

as a young boy. The topic of discussion at most family gatherings normally involves whatever

species of animal is in season or gun control. Growing up in this environment has given me an

interesting outlook on certain issues, mostly those having to do with gun control and the Second

Amendment. It is my belief that the original intent and purpose of the Second Amendment was

to preserve and guarantee, not grant the pre-existing right of individuals, to keep and bear arms.

The Second Amendment reads: 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.

Although there is an emphasizes on the need for a militia, membership in any militi

discouraging people from religious observance would be permissible to some future,

predecessors, rejected language linking their right to "the common defense".(Joyce Lee Malcom

people. With this wording the writers of the constitution have clearly, distinguished between the

constructing a legal document like the Constitution that they would use the word "people" when

Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the

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