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Argument: The Second Amendment confers the individual right to self defense
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- Jeffrey Snyder, "Fighting Back: Crime, Self-Defense, and the Right to Carry a Handgun" "The overwhelming weight of modern legal and historical scholarship regarding the Second Amendment, however, is that the amendment affirms an individual right to keep and bear private arms. [58] As summarized by the historian Joyce Lee Malcolm:
- "The Second Amendment was meant to accomplish two distinct goals, each perceived as crucial to the maintenance of liberty. First, it was meant to guarantee the individual's right to have arms for self-defense and self-preservation. Such an individual right was a legacy of the English bill of rights. This is also plain from American colonial practice, the debates over the constitution, and state proposals for what was to become the Second Amendment..."
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