It is one of the most controversial topics today. Each side of the issue has valid concerns, but at what point do we abandon our personal fears and allow a parent to protect their child, a woman to protect herself as she walks to her car after a hard day at work, or an owner to stop a robbery? Do we say that honest men and women cannot legally own a gun and take it away from law-abiding citizens, but not from criminals? Whether or not to carry a weapon should be a personal choice, and should not be taken lightly, because it is indeed a deadly weapon. The legal right to bear a gun should always exist. This right should not be taken away from the millions of Americans who have followed the laws for decades, because of those few who want to abuse their freedom. But the right to bear a gun, which our Founding Fathers found so important that they wrote it as the Second Amendment to our Constitution, should be preserved for this generation and the next. Those first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, are there to protect our freedoms from a tyrannical government, so why now, after all the wars fought to protect those rights, should we give up those rights? Do we tell the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who died preserving our freedoms that they made a good effort, but that we will ignore their courage and their lives that were lost? I agree that not everyone should be able to carry a gun, I think there should be limitations, just like there are with any law. Gun owners should be trained in safety and pass criminal and mental background checks. There are those who think that passing laws to limit gun ownership will cause those who ignore paper, the food that so many Americans put on the table for their families, to pay for medical advances through taxpayer money. taxpayers, and pays for those life-saving medical advances through a paycheck. Gun store owners and gun owners alike are not "bad" people, they are simply Americans exercising their right that we all should, and have always had. The same rights that were granted to us more than two hundred years ago; the right to bear arms. Works Cited “9/11: Events of the Day.” September 11th. National September 11 Memorial and Museum, n.d. Web. November 24, 2013.Gorner, Jeremy and Peter Nickeas. "Chicago Police Confirm 'Tragic Number' of 500 Murders." Chicago Tribune. Np, Dec. 28, 2012. Web. Nov. 19, 2013. “Second Amendment.” LII. Cornell University School of Law, nd Web. November 20, 2013. Templeton, Tom and Tom Lumley. "September 11th in numbers." The Guardian. Np, 17 August 2002. Web. 20 November. 2013.