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VA: Stricter gun legislation needed to save lives
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Gun control should be more restrictive in Richmond. As a senior in high school, I worry whether my school will be the site of the next mass shooting, such as the attack in 2012 on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, where 20 children and six staff members were killed, or the 2018 attack at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, where 17 people were killed. |
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Dear Hallie,
The Second Amendment doesn't "give" us a right to keep and bear arms, it guarantees it. The right preexists the Constitution.
"The right there specified is that of 'bearing arms for a lawful purpose'. This is not a right granted by the Constitution. Neither is it in any manner dependent upon that instrument for its existence." - U.S .v Cruikshank (1875)
It is a natural, fundamental right, not a government-granted privilege. You clumsily acknowledge that the Constitution 'gives' us the right, yet its presence in the Bill of Rights is of no consequence to you. You want to do SOMETHING.
Indeed. But the "something" we have to do does not include infringing the right of everyone for the criminal acts of a few. |
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