Killing Your Rights

          The right to bear arms has always been an amendment that people have used to protect themselves and their families. Since 1791, all people in America have had the right, executed or not, to defend themselves from an attacker with any weapon that is available to them at the time. Having a law that only permits you to fight back if you have the same weapon as your attacker? Now that’s unconstitutional.

            In the category of violent crime, there are five areas of assault: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and simple assault. Of these crimes, the five most used weapons are guns, knives (cutting objects), blunt objects, the act of arson, and the human hands. Imagine yourself alone at home when a burglar busts into your door and comes at you with a machete. What would you do? Run into the bedroom and grab your machete? Under this law that would be the only thing that you could do to protect yourself. Most burglars and attackers don’t use the same weapons that we regularly have in our homes. So let’s say that you grab a fork out of the closest drawer and throw it at him and kill him, who goes to prison for murder? Not him, you.

            When the Constitution was written, the intentions were to protect, help, and keep our citizens independence secure. The laws made today are supposed to support and honor the Constitution, not take away our rights as free men and women in the United States of America. A wise man once said, “For so unlimited a power can only belong to God…” (Paine 161). The law makers of our country should be out to help us, not diminish the liberty that we have been given by our ancestors. Such a divine power the government has, but what do they choose to do with it? Gamble the security of our citizens and make our country a lesser place.

            In the inaugural address given by President Kennedy in 1961, he stated, “We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution” (197). We will not now, or ever contradict the rights that we were blessed with in this country almost two-hundred and fifty years ago. What would those revolutionary soldiers say if they saw this law? What would the soldiers say that are in the Middle East right at this very moment defending our country’s integrity say, when they are giving their lives for the freedoms that we take for granted every day?  We are allowed to practice any religion, have the freedom to protest, and speak about our ideas. Use those precious rights that the rest of the world is crying out to have, and don’t let the confused men of our country take away what some of us cherish so deeply. Stand up for your rights as free men and women! If not yours, let it be your children’s rights that drive you to make this right. Let your liberties be heard and help us change this unjust law.

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Works Cited:
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0004888.html
http://www.securitybase.com/blog/burglary-statistics-by-the-numbers