Why though i don't know..... :?
Why what? :?
Why would there be a barage of we have a right to keep guns.
It's because of our constitution. You have to understand the United States of America is one of the oldest modern democracies. The Constitution is a document that distributes power, among other things. One reason we have the right to bear arms is to protect ourselves from an out of control government. As strange and backward as that might seem to some, there is a long heritage of the 'right to bear arms' in the states.
It is generally felt that if we give up our right to bear arms then perhaps freedom of speech and other rights will be taken away also. It's not totally unjustified either.
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*Ok, now for my own soap box* ---this will be so debatable---
For instance, look at Iraq, if no one had guns then the United States government would have clamped down a long time ago, but because there are so many guns and weapons in Iraq it still hasn't ended the fighting. The Constitution has the right to bear arms for just a situation where the government tries to control the people but can't because there are so many guns in people's houses. Because it would be our right, they couldn't under the constitution legally take the weapons from us.
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Does that make sense?
