PUBH 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Concealed Carry In The United States, Mass Shooting, Individual And Group Rights
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Massacre: specific incident involving indiscriminate killing of large number of people. Mass shooting: incident involving multiple victims being shot or killed in the same general time or location. Mass killing: killing of three or more people in a public place. School shooting: mass shooting in at an educational institutional. Second amendment: a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed . Right of people to keep and bear arms created individual constitutional right. Attempts of legislative bodies to prohibit firearm possession: viewed as unconstitutional. Only intended to restrict congress from impending a state"s right to self defense. Militia: implies an army or other military or law keeping force, individual citizens do not have an individual right to possess guns. Local, state, and federal legislative bodies have authority to regulate firearms without violating constitutional rights. Higher sales of handguns (bought for self defense)
