The result is salutary: Americans are beginning to understand the threat of shariah law, and even better, to understand the strengths of their own Constitution to protect the rights of free speech, the right to free association and to freely exercise or leave a religion, the right to bear arms, the right to due process and equal protection under the law for women and children.
Flushed with these successes, gun controllers have begun to hope that America may soon come round to the European view, which is that the right to bear arms and the right to arm bears deserve roughly equal sympathy.
The suit seeks a ruling that both provisions violate the constitution's Second Amendment right to bear arms and the 14th Amendment right to equal protection under the laws as well as injunctions stopping enforcement.
In these United States, honest, hard-working Americans aren't asking for much -- all they really want out of life is the right to bear 7.62mm tracer ammunition, the right to patronize 24-hour burger joints, and the inalienable, immutable right to a 3G femtocell in every home.
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Among those guaranteed rights and privileges are: freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, due process and equal protection under the law, the right to privacy and the right to keep and bear arms.
Legally recognizing the right to bear arms upholds the inalienable moral rights of honest men.
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The right to bear arms versus the need to control gun ownership is one that resonates through the country.
To decide the case, the justices had to rule directly on the meaning of the Second Amendment, a provision with only 27 words: 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.
He takes the Bill of Rights seriously and is an unapologetic defender of freedom of speech and press the First Amendment and the right to bear arms the Second Amendment.
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Republican Senator Orrin Hatch said on Tuesday that he was "a strong supporter of the second amendment" - referring to a clause in the US Constitution on the right to bear arms.
The unfettered right to own and bear arms consecrates individual sovereignty and ordains the right of self-defense.
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He insisted that a reasonable ban on semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as strengthening background checks, presented no threat to the constitutional right to bear arms.
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But today, after decades of effort by gun rights activists, the court declared the right to keep and bear arms is an individual right aimed, at the very least, at citizens protecting home and hearth.
The right to bear arms is my constitutional God-given right and I will exercise that right 'til the day I die.
Girls across the globe do not enjoy basic human rights: freedom from violence, to education, to inherit or own land, to decide when and whether to marry or bear children, or, the right to self-determination.
We bear a duty to make the right decisions for our children and grandchildren and for our God-given Earth.
Rather than a serious risk to some particular freedom like the right to bear arms and use them rhetoric that champions any measure that helps just one person, or reduces risk by any degree, poses a dramatic, immediate risk to the very concept of freedom.
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Your opinion that a child needs a mother and a father and therefore single people and gay people should be deprived of the right to bear and raise children is not supported by the research that shows children raised by gay and single parents do not suffer harm as a result.
To non-Americans, oblivious to the constitutional guarantee of the right of the people to keep and bear arms, the connection between guns and tragedy seems obvious.
The right to bear arms will be something this administration tries to erase in the next four years.
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But even if we clamped down on the US right to keep and bear arms as severely as we have clamped down on that right within the prison population, you still would be faced with that population of people, with their propensity for violence, in the general population.
Though smaller gun rights groups, such as the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, support the measure, the NRA reiterated its threat to hold those who back the compromise politically accountable.
In 2010, the Court expanded the Heller ruling to forbid the states, as well as the federal government, from infringing on the right to bear arms.
But, at the same time, law-abiding Americans who want to protect themselves under the Second Amendment right to bear arms must be respected.
Supporters of gun control argue that the constitutional right to bear arms can be limited, for example, by the existing ban on private citizens possessing grenade launchers and other military weaponry.
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Other witnesses and senators who support tougher regulations countered that the constitutional right to bear arms can be limited, for example, by the existing ban on private citizens possessing grenade launchers and other military weaponry.
Chicago (2010) the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that whether someone lives in an inner-city or a rural county they have the same right to keep and bear arms protected by the Second Amendment in the U.S. Bill of Rights.
Does the Second Amendment right to bear arms for self-defense extend outside the doorway of our homes?
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The second amendment (the right to keep and bear arms) speaks to both the moral personality of human beings and the lawless tendencies of the state amidst political conflict.
Proposals for stricter gun laws, in particular, seem likely to fall foul of Americans' constitutional right to bear arms, and the gun lobby's ferocious defence of it.
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