THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AMENDMENT II A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. The gun debate is being argued in many places throughout segments of the nation. These arguments are occurring in the midst of state and local laws that have been designed and adopted for greater and more prolific statutes that have often failed to protect Americans from misuse and death. These restrictions have not worked and its wishful thinking to think they will. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed, being necessary to the security of a free state.” It is past time for government to enforce the existing law against law breakers, not merely to pass more nonworking statutes. Dr. Alan G. Phillips, Sr.