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...American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a staunch protector of our rights as citizens, has taken an uncharacteristically unprotective stance on the right to keep and bear arms. They reason that the Second Amendment was created to give states the right to maintain a militia to protect them from federal tyranny. It does not guarantee an individual right to bear arms...
Federal Courts have supported this view. In U.S. v. Warin, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, "Since the Second Amendment...applies only to the right of the State to maintain a militia and not to the individual's right to bear arms, there can be no serious claim to any express constitutional right to possess a firearm...
...even if the amendment were construed to guarantee the individual right to keep and bear arms, it would still be for the purpose of protecting against federal tyranny. If this were the case, then it would also have to protect the possession of nuclear weapons, armored tanks and short-range missiles. Handguns are of little value against the U.S. military, and therefore would not be the amendment's concern anyway. As pro-gun advocates presumably accept a ban on the personal possession of nuclear warheads, they are implicitly allowing the government to infringe on the right of the people...
...problem is not that the American people do not have enough weapons, nor that they do not have powerful enough weapons. The bombing shows in no uncertain terms that the right to keep and bear arms is protected, but it shows equally clearly that a few extremists exercising these rights can kill hundreds of innocent citizens...
...admit that giving more people more guns is not the right answer. As John Locke argued nearly three centuries ago, when we come together to form societies, we must surrender certain rights to the government in exchange for protection. It is time we surrendered the right to keep and bear arms to the Federal Government, so that the Federal Government can finally protect us in return...