The right to bear arms has been one of the most controversial subjects of our time. The idea of gun control is absolutely idiotic. If you disarm the law abiding citizen, it only makes it that much easier for the criminal to successfully complete his crime. I am surprised this is really a debate at this point. Throughout history, proven through facts, promised by the constitution, as Americans we have the right to carry weapons.

The main reason the second amendment became ratified into the Constitution was for the people to be allowed the right to overthrow their government if it became oppressive. What chance do you think the citizens of America could possibly stand against today’s modern United States army? If you simply acknowledge the facts, use your common knowledge, and read the constitution, then maybe you will become as infuriated as I am to hear about how taking guns “off the streets” makes life safer.

Whether people choose to believe they are part of some greater society, where armed police and professional military personnel take precedence over protecting its citizens, does not mean that citizens must give up their constitutional right to protect themselves. Throughout history, when arms are taken away, tragedy ensues.

Take a look at Nazi Germany, the catalyst that allowed all other rights thereafter to be stripped from the Jews, began with its Regulations Against Jew’s Possession of Firearms. After the Nazis had risen to power, they began disarming the Jewish populace, making it easier to wipe out their existence. Upon the introduction of gun control in the Soviet Union, in 1929, the Stalinist regime coincidentally rose to power. Then there is the birth of the United States. In the initial revolutionary battles at Lexington and Concord, the “shot heard ‘round the world” was initially fired because General Gage was ordered to disarm the populace.

There is no end to the facts in favor of guns rights. Law after law has been passed in various states to try and keep a tighter control on the distribution of handguns, however politicians cannot seem to grasp that the only people that adhere to these policies are the law abiding citizens who were doing no harm in the first place.

In 1966, New Jersey enacted what was, at the time, the most stringent gun law. Two years after the law was enacted, the robbery rate nearly doubled, and the murder rate rose by over 46 percent. In 2003, The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Report listed the top ten cities with highest violent crime rates; of those ten, three of the cities were from New Jersey. So you would think by now, 2010, the great state of New Jersey would have seen the light…right?

 In June of 2009, a new gun restriction was added to the bevy of those that already existing. The new law institutes that only one gun per month can be purchased by a law abiding citizen, in New Jersey. Special clauses were added to exempt both gun collectors and store owners from this restriction. Not only does this restriction again strip the rights of the citizens of New Jersey, it also makes it that much easier for criminals to prevail.

Yet another Orwellian tactic was instituted by liberal New Jersey. How much farther do our legislators really plan to restrict our right to acquire a means of protection? How much longer will New Jersey citizens allow politicians to strip us of our rights? Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights- Bob Marley