Argumentative Essay: The Right To Bear Arms

In the modern times back in the late 18th century in the Constitution where the Founding Fathers were established the to rebuild the federal government to become more efficient than the recent government under the Article of Confederation, they were also published and ratified the ten natural rights of the citizens known as the Bill of Rights. In the Bill of Rights of the Congress, the Second Amendment, which infers that the people of the society has been entitled to have possessions of bearing weapons; although, in the modern society of today where the amendment has become the most controversial of the Bill of Rights,as the critics came to a solution of preventing the people of the world of having weapons. Instead, the supporters …show more content…
Keywords: right to bear arms, the contradiction, the government untrustworthy. The Right to Bear Arms. In the recent society of the late 18th century, when the prior government, the Article of Confederation, has considered to become rather unstable to unable to prevent the Shay’s Rebellion, where Massachusetts has sent their army and eventually ending the rebellion by having a better weapons and trained armed forces. In addition, the Revolutionary War had demonstrated convincingly that militia forces couldn’t heavily rely on national defense, and other occasions,requiring a protection of the nation may not often be very advanced. In response of the dilemma has eventually led the Constitutional Convention to reconsider of their recent yet hasty decision, therefore, of actually bestowed the federal government almost complete minority of power of establishing armed forces. However, the rash decision of Congress inadvertently created a threat to liberty by utilizing their required power and military forces to oppress the people of society, causing and provoking the people of possessing weapons for self-defense of the …show more content…
Using a militia as an alternative tactic to deploy their armies had deep roots originated in the English history, and also a considerable appeal; but it has serious complications, regardless. For example, Alexander Hamilton thought the military system couldn’t serve its purpose efficiently, primarily due to having violated the basic economic principle of the division of labor. Furthermore, to those who valued the militia realized that it is likely to become fragile and unstable. The reason for the military government to become easily fragile is the very same reason of which Alexander had disparaged it, {“citizens were always going to resist undergo unpaid military training, and governments were always going to want more professional and therefore more efficient and tractable forces”} ( as quoted in Heritage Foundation, 2012). The Contradiction. While the people believes to have the possession of bearing arms to protect themselves from being oppressed by the government; however, the people were taking advantage of the Second Amendment by buying illegal weapons from a black market, trying to assassinate important citizens, or to bringing to

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