Right To Bear Arms Research Paper

The government was designed to protect the people and provide law and order. The 2nd Amendment was put in place to keep the citizens in charge of the government. As said by Thomas Jefferson, “When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government”(Epps). The right to bear arms, vote, and protest are methods that are used to keep the citizens more powerful than the government. However, some citizens rights to do these strategies are limited, because the government has restricted some things in the citizens rights. Even though the citizens …show more content…
People make up the government which means the government will have some type of control of the citizens and the citizens will have some type of control of the government because, the people in the government makes the laws for the society and decide which laws to pass. Therefore, both the citizens and government keep each other in line. Because citizens have the right to bear arms, they are protecting themselves from the government and showing that they have power. The right to bear arms law lead to the creation of the right to vote and protest laws. This law helped enable citizens gain control over the government by creating laws that could not be changed or terminated. This law created the long lasting power of citizens keeping the government in line. Unfortunately, the government has created methods such as creating laws that restricts citizens who may have been incarcerated or is incarcerated, from voting. This is an example of one of the many methods the government uses to limit the citizens control over …show more content…
They have control over who they want in a certain position and who they want to represent them and their society. Unfortunately, the government has methods to choose the candidates they think is best. For example, “The "right to vote" is mentioned five times--and yet the Court has brushed it aside as a privilege that states may observe at their convenience”(Epps). During the presidential election, Hillary Clinton won by popular vote, but Donald Trump won by electoral votes, winning the election. This demonstrates a way in how the citizens right to vote is not effective enough to control the government. The government uses another one of their methods to restrict the citizens from being in control. They do this by creating a rule allowing electoral votes determine the President instead of the people’s vote. This method is unfair to the people because the popular vote is the citizens that voted. People vote to elect someone that they desire to be in a certain position to uphold a particular duty. Determining the President from electoral votes is unfair to the people because their votes does not matter due to the method used to keep the citizens in line. By using the electoral votes as a method to determine the President is a form of controlling the citizens. They control the citizens by choosing who they want in office so that the citizens can abide by their rules, giving the government power

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