The right to bear arms

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Fiche synthèse sur le droit de port d'armes aux Etats-Unis, datés clés et événements, mots de vocabulaire.A l'époque, c'était le droit à la résistance contre un pouvoir tyrannique (alors la couronne d'Angleterre) qui était mis en avant pour soutenir cette mesure ; il visait donc à protéger la jeune république américaine. De fait, les américains ont un attachement ancien à ce droit.

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[...] 1993: The Braddy Act, tightened the conditions for former criminals to obtain a weapon. 1994: low which ban the sale of 19 specific weapons until 2004. Well beyond (=bien au-delà) the political question, we must also realize that a weapon is a structuring cultural object in this country, inseparable from the legend of the American West. The second amendment is part of culture: "gun shows" . Over 60% of Americans thinks owing a gun will make their lives safer. In fact, owing a gun increases the risk of homicide, suicide and unintentional death. [...]

[...] The 2nd amendment is about the right of Americans to bear arms, (own guns). And it's no surprise that this amendment causes deep division among Americans. One side of the gun rights debate says that the 2nd amendment is as clear as can be: Americans have the right to own guns. The other side of the debate says that the wording of the second amendment is vague and unclear, and that gun rights are limited to participation in a militia. [...]

[...] People do."The right to bear arms dates back to 1791 and has never been questioned since. Yet the world has changed somewhat: today, with a modern weapon, a single person can wreak the same havoc as a whole army once did. The United States is the world's largest arms exporter with major companies such as Colt. America has six times as many firearm homicides as Canada, and nearly 16 times as many as Germany America has more guns than people States with tighter gun control laws have fewer gun-related deaths after each killings, there's a marked increase in gun sales An Assault Weapons Ban has virtually (=pratiquement) no chance of being signed into law before 2021. [...]