What does the 2nd Amendment mean to an American citizen?

It is his personal defense. Every moment of a citizen’s life, this is his vital deterrent from any violent threat or violent attack. Every moment of his life, this is his absolute protection against any violent threat or violent attack of his family. The right to keep and bear arms is an extremely heavy and weighty right, that no citizen should ever under any circumstances undertake lightly. Firearms and weapons are an extremely serious matter. And for those who are lawfully permitted to carry and are of sound mind, and not given to anger, this is a foundational protection for American citizens. The police are significantly so to be admired for their bravery and commitment to protect the citizens and residents of their jurisdiction, but there are in any jurisdiction, only so few officers compared to jurisdictional population. It is up to each individual to make decisions about their personal safety and the safety of those around them.

It is his Constitutional law protection. Cemented in our Constitution, coming out from a Revolutionary War, of which many saw America leading up to that time was being occupied by and dictated to by British forces, the right for American residents at that time (prior to the founding of our nation) to have the legal right to defend themselves from illegal aggression or violence became absolute in the eyes of those who opposed the British. From the days of the war forward, this protection in the Constitution was many a lynchpin to its ratification by the states. They saw the keeping of weapons as monumentally important – and indeed, it still is today.

It is the people’s defense. The lawful and responsible people of the United States are granted specifically by the 2nd Amendment: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free State” and that “the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”

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