Right To Bear Arms
Right to arms refers to:
- Right to keep and bear arms, the concept that people, have an individual right to own and carry weapons.
- In the United States of America this refers to the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, contained in the Bill of Rights.
- The right to bear arms, part of the Law of Arms governing the display of coats of arms
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Famous quotes containing the words right to, bear and/or arms:
“What does it matter whether I am shown to be right! I am right too much!—And he who laughs best today will also laugh last.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Let a man learn to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting; let him learn to bear the disappearance of things he was wont to reverence; without losing his reverence; let him learn that he is here, not to work, but to be worked upon; and that, though abyss open under abyss, and opinion displace opinion, all are at last contained in the Eternal Cause.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“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.”
—Second Amendment, U.S. Constitution (1791)