Your 2nd amendment to legally protect yourself. While the gun control issue stays in the public eye, the police force is consistently afforded protection from laws suits rising from abusive force, in our courts. Our founding fathers build into the constitution this language in such a way, that citizens can protect themselves from criminals bout also rouge government agencies. Gun control, and the right to bare arms, is just a small part of this as a larger issue of a evolving constitution and the legality of changing it, to fit lobbiest wims.
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