"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." ---Thomas Jefferson, 1816. The issue of gun control is an age-old question that was first brought to the front by the founders of this nation in The Second Amendment. The Second Amendment was meant to accomplish two distinct goals, each perceived as crucial to the maintenance of liberty: First, it was meant to …showed first 75 words of 1183 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1183 total…some future, oh-so-progressive government that considered religion as hopelessly declass progressives nowadays consider the right to keep and bear arms. Any statute or regulation that burdens the right to keep and bear arms on the ground that guns are a public health hazard should enjoy the same frosty reception in court that would be given to a statute or regulation that burdened the free exercise of religion as a mental health hazard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography** none