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WHERE DO YOU STAND ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT…....?

You remember, that’s the one that the Supreme Court (5-4) said guarantees individual Americans the right to a firearm for their self-defense, among other purposes…...
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Full disclosure: I own an ancient, single-shot .410 shotgun, and have never owned a handgun, although I’ve shot a number and am thinking about a .45 semi-automatic pistol.
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But, I’ve always been attracted to the decals that say “These premises protected by Smith and Wesson”, as well as by the column called ARMED CITIZEN that the NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION (of which I’m a member) publishes every month. The column chronicles defensive gun use in the United States - stories of a very few of the 1,000,000 or more regular citizens, attacked in their homes or businesses, who defend themselves *each year* with a firearm.

Tennessee is a “right to carry”, or a “shall-issue” state, meaning that if a citizen meets the qualifications, including a training course, and having no felony record, he or she MUST be issued a permit to carry their weapon concealed on their person. All TN citizens have the right to own a handgun and to use it in defense of ourselves and our family in our automobiles or homes. It’s only logical that places where a criminal can’t possibly know whether he’ll be met by an armed homeowner have fewer home invasions than those places where homeowners are forbidden by law to have defensive weaponry—and sure enough, the data bear out our common sense.
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This year, we have a clear choice in our presidential candidates - although both of them *SAY* reassuring sounding things about our Second Amendment rights, their actions in the past could not be more distinct.
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The NRA has prepared an ad highlighting one instance of these differences:
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