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===Gun rights===
 
===Gun rights===
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By now, you should know which part of the Constitution protects gun rights.  Article I?  No.  Article IV?  No.  The First Amendment?  Nope.
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It is the Second Amendment that protects the right "to keep and bear Arms," which is the right to have a gun.  Perhaps no other part of the Constitution is opposed by liberals as much as they oppose the Second Amendment.
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For most of the 1900s, liberals insisted that the Second Amendment protects only a "collective" right to guns -- a right held only by a group of people, a militia.  Only members who were in a militia, and only the militia itself, had gun rights under that view of liberals.
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In 2008, in the case of ''D.C. v. Heller'', a narrow 5-4 vote of the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment establishes an "individual" right to guns.  Under this decision, someone does not need to belong to a militia in order to have this constitutional right.  That decision was the first time in about 70 years that the Supreme Court had issued a ruling on the Second Amendment.
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Both prior to and after the Supreme Court decision, conservatives passed laws in states in order to protect and expand gun rights for law-abiding individuals.  Nearly all states have a "concealed carry" law which allows citizens, upon obtaining a permit, to carry guns in public as long as the guns are concealed.  Every year many conservative states consider broadening those laws to allow the carrying of guns in places formerly prohibited, such as on college campuses.
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A few liberal areas of the country, such as Chicago, continue to attempt to deny law-abiding citizens their right to own guns, and this results in additional litigation in federal courts over the meaning of the Second Amendment.
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Why is there so much opposition to the Second Amendment?  With a strong right to have guns, people are less dependent on government.  In other countries, such as England, where the people have lost their right to have guns, the people become more dependent on government and tend to vote to expand government rather than narrow it.  So the strength of gun rights has an influence on all other political issues, by determining how dependent the people will be on government.
    
===Property rights===
 
===Property rights===
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