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I believe that the third ammendment is one of the most important ammendments we have. This ammendment is what gives us personal property, the right of self-defense, and the right to rebel against the government. Letting the government take away our guns gives them power over us. If we look into nazi germany, the first thing that Hitler did was take away gun ownership, so that nobody could rebel against him. Our society also follows the next step that Hitler did, which is the destruction of the traditional family. Once the government takes away gun ownership, we completely lose the rights that the constitution clearly gave us, which was directly influenced by Locke. Locke stated that citizens have the right to rebel against the government if it gets corrupt. This is the direct reason why the right to seceed from the union is (or at least was) legal.

Gun-opponents often bring up the fact that we were in a time of war, so gun ownership was almost vital. That's pure rubbish, as the founders of America never criticized this ammendment years after the war. By that logic, one could argue that quite a few of the ammendments were meant only for the war. If they wanted it to be temporary, they would have stated so. But they did not. We're not in Thomas More's Utopia where if in war we're allowed to take up arms, but otherwise cannot have any. We're in a realistic society, where gun ownership is always nessecary for our own protection.

On a side note, even if guns are banned for non-government use, criminals are always going to be able to find them. By making them illegal, crime will grow, because criminals will know that homes do not have weapons for defense. This is similar to drugs, where if we illegalize marijuana, we're making people break the law more.

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