Position Paper -- Gun Control

Essential Question:
Is the Second Amendment a collective or individual right ?

Concepts to include:

• Second Amendment (REQUIRED)
• Rule of Law
• Republicanism
• Federalism
• Natural Rights
• What affect does the Second Amendment have on gun control?
• Should guns be harder to get to reduece crime?
  
  Articles - Use these articles and cases to support your thesis.
• Entrant-gun law is restored
• High court to weigh ban on gun ownership
• Justices could shake up battle over gun rights with ruling in D.C. case
• Video: Does gun control work?*
• Guns -- Talk of the Nation Audio
• Myth: Gun Control Reduces Crime - John Stossel (YouTube)
• John Stossel Links Gun Control to Higher Crime Rates (YouTube)
• MSNBC Special Edition - Gun Control - (YouTube)
• Gun Control Debate (VTech Aftermath) - (YouTube)
• Second Amendment in Danger? (youtube)
• Governor vetoes weapons measure
• Supreme Court rejects appeals testing individual right to own arms
• Arizonans back gun control over ownership, poll finds
• Nugent: Gun-free zones are recipe for disaster
• Plate: Let's lay down our right to bear arms
• Bowling for Columbine - video cartoon
• CNN "Guns Under Fire"
• Brazilians vote resounding 'no' to proposed ban on gun sales
• Court backs conviction of machine-gun owner
• Hyde offers gun-control compromise - September 22, 1999
• Bush announces gun crimes initiative in Texas - September 21, 1999
• Gun control debate shifts to House - May 24, 1999
• Volatile gun control issue has cooled in House after recess
• Gun rights boom in Alaska
  Concealed carry is OK statewide, city permits not
• Gun Control Debate  - YAHOO
  
  Landmark Case
  UNITED STATES v. MILLER, 307 U.S. 174 (1939)
  A sawed-off shoutgun is illegal to posses. Set the U.S. government into gun control.
  
  Interest Groups
  Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
  Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Educational Fund to End Handgun Violence (educational arm of CSGV).
  Gun Owners of America.
  Handgun Control, Inc., plus Coalition to Stop Gun Violence (educational spin-off of HCI).
  Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
  Join Together Online.  Brings together resources from 15 local and national anti-gun organizations, and provides original content. Very slick site with frequent updates.
  National Rifle Association
  Second Amendment Foundation (educational arm of CCRKBA).
  
  Link Collections
  Independence Institute links page, Second Amendment section. Links for pro and anti-gun organizations, including foreign groups, national American ones, and state & local.