Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Amendment Two

"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."

The second amendment was included in the Bill of Rights to protect the right of citizens to keep and bear arms if called into miltia service by the government. It means that we, as law abiding Citizens of the US, have the right to own firearms, and those rights won't be taken away from you. The second amendment was written in order to protect this right of states to have standing militias. "Most constitutional scholars agree that the right to bear arms extends to citizens not part of a militia. However, the right to bear arms does not extend to unorganized individuals and the central argument for the right to own firearms breaks down."

This video deals with the second amendment as Ron Paul talks about how crucial the Second Amendment lacks in the areas in our country where its needed the most.  It's very discriminatory in the inner cities.  The inner cities is where there is the most crime and if your a law biden citizen then your not allowed to defend against the crime.  The second amendment would help with the violence in the inner cities throughout the country.


This picture relates to the Second Amendment because it talks about the right to bear arms.  If people have hidden guns in their homes, it is called concealed weapons. There are a lot of people that carry guns in their homes.  A lot of people are for it and against it.  I grew up with a gun in my house but I was never told where it was hidden.  My dad was a cop so he has it more for protection of the family. I feel a lot more safe with a gun in my house then if I didn't, because if someone were to brake it, we would have something to protect us.

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

First Amendment

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The First Amendment means to me today, is it state's a person's basic rights to live in the United States of America. Without the First Amendment we citizen's today would not be able to express our thoughts and are beliefs.  I also let's us choose whatever religion we believe in and that allows us to have our freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and petition.
This video relates to the First Amendment because you should be able to say what you want and not be afraid of attack. A lot of people can take this offensive, but it's true and we the people have that right to say what we want and we the people have the freedom of speech.


 
I picked this picture because its funny and I think this picture relates to the first amendment because people make their own assumptions or definitions about what the first amendment means. Although it is not distract as this picture shows, people defintions are how the founding fathers planned on people perceiving the first amendment.