Gun Control

Source:  Gun Control. June 28, 2010.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/g/gun_control/index.html?scp=1&sq=right%20to%20bear%20arms&st=cse

Constitutional Connection:  Amendment 2 "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."

Explaination of Connection: 

          In every situation, the judges ruled having a gun at home for safety is constitutional.  Barack Obama, in May of 2009, signed a law that allows you to carry a loaded, concealed gun in national parks.  Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws in the country.  I could guess it is because the violence in Chicago has been ghastly.
          This article clearly demonstrates Amenment 2 In the Bill of rights of the United States Constiution.  This article means that the people of the United States have the right to own a gun for safety.  In all areas, you are not allowed to carry it out, but you are able to have one at home for safety at least.  The Congress has the right to force background checks on people buying guns, but not to completely ban people from owning a gun.
          The tensions got highers for gun control after the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin L. King in 1968. I could just imagine what Chicago would be like if people weren't allowed to own a gun.  It would be so much safer.  Too bad that probably wont happen.  I'm glad that background checks are required for the purchase of a gun so they won't give a gun to a crazy serial killer.  I just wish that gun laws in chicago would get a little stricter!  In conclusion, I beleive that the American people should be allowed to own a handgun at home.