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The Second Amendment debate
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The Second Amendment debate
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Morris
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James S.
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1982-
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James S. Morris
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Stuart
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Stuart Charme
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Rutgers University
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Camden Graduate School
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The debate on gun control dates back to the ratification of Second Amendment in 1791. The history of gun control in the United States has issues such as slavery, criminalization of giving the Catholics guns and the regulation of storage of gun powders in houses. The ratification of the Second Amendment was part of the enactment of Bill of Rights – the first ten amendments to the original Constitution of 1787. Recent cultural debates that revolve around gun control and ownership lack substantive consideration of the American history up to and after the ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791. This thesis calls for consideration of upholding the contents and intents of the Bill of Rights on the right to bear arms. This research study employs qualitative research design and has elements such as questionnaires, interviews, observations, focus group discussions and case study in collecting data. It is anchored on the Theory of Individual Rights to give a hypothesis that gun ownership is not to blame for recent happenings in United States regarding regular killings in the country. A total of 300 participants are employed for this research drawn from five States of the United States namely, Massachusetts, Georgia, Oregon, California and Alaska. In each of the five states, 50 persons were asked to fill out questionnaires and ten were interviewed. The participants who filled out questionnaires were selected randomly while only senior political officials in the States were interviewed.
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Liberal Studies
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Gun control--United States
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Firearms--Law and legislation--United States
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United States. Constitution. 2nd Amendment
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1 online resource (v, 46 p. : ill.)
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M.A.
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by James S. Morris
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ETD graduate
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James
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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