Right To Bear Arms

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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    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)

    The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.
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    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.
    U.S. Constitution, Second Amendment.