The Right of the Individual to Keep & Bear Arms

I am a firm believer in a person's rights to self-preservation and protection from unlawful subjugation, and thus an avid supporter for the individual right to keep and bear arms in defense of self, other innocents, and one's property.  As the Supreme Court has established (see District of Columbia v. Heller), the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms and is NOT a right only guaranteed to governmentally established militias.  As the Supreme Court's own research concludes, this individual right was a "natural" (socially accepted and practiced) right that pre-dated the Constitution and was added to the Bill of Rights only to prohibit the government from making laws that restricted this natural right, not to declare a new right.

Many secondary sources of information (including many popular news media outlets) are ill-informed and/or biased.  You would be doing yourself a disservice not to do your own research and form your own opinion.  Do not be fooled by people who say gun control laws reduce crime. Criminals obviously don't give two craps about the law in the first place.  Do you really think that gun laws that theoretically restrict all people, but only truly impede law-abiding citizens make us safer?  By restricting law-abiding citizens' right to keep and bear arms we are making life safer and easier for criminals to conduct criminal activity.