In today’s society, everyone knows that it is important to know what our rights are and how to protect it.  The question is asked, does everyone have a right to own a gun in the United States?  Guns are weapons that kill people, but since they are also to protect people, then everyone should have a rite to own a gun to protect themselves and their family.

     Our president, George W. Bush, thinks that there should be no laws against guns.  In a newspaper on the internet it says, “the Bush administration has issued a 109-page memorandum aiming to prove that the Second Amendment grants individuals nearly unrestricted access to firearms” (http://online.wsj.com/public/article//feature).  This means that even our president thinks anyone should have guns.  Protected by the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  It says, "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.” (http://www.saf.org/).  This means that it is important that people should be able to have guns, they have the write to.

     Now in days some people think that all guns should be outlawed.  They say that only terrorists have guns.  According to Michael D. Barnes, "This report makes one thing crystal clear: terrorists and guns go together.  Firearms are part of the essential tool kit of domestic and foreign terrorists alike. Guns are used to commit terrorist acts, and guns are used by terrorists to resist law enforcement efforts at apprehension and arrest” (http://www.bradycenter.org/reports).   But guns don’t make terrorists, terrorists make terrorists.  

     Those who think all guns should be outlawed are wrong because it is in the Constitution that we should have guns they are important for us to protect ourselves.  Even the U.S. Attorney General of the United States thinks that gun control is not the American way.  They say, “For the foregoing reasons, we conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right to keep and to bear arms. [O]ur examination of the original meaning of the Amendment provides extensive reasons to conclude that the Second Amendment secures an individual right, and no persuasive basis for either the collective-right or quasi-collective-right views.” (http://nra.org/Article).  This means that each one of us has a right to have a gun, or many guns, or any kind of gun.

     Life is very dangerous in this day and age.  We all need to protect ourselves.  That’s why it is important to be able to buy a gun any time we want to.  If everyone had a gun, then there would be less murders, bank robberies, carjackings, and death.

     Works Cited

http://online.wsj.com/public/article//feature
http://www.saf.org/
http://nra.org/Article
http://www.bradycenter.org/reports