The Constitution Does Not Give "Crazies" or Republicans the Right to Bear Arms

Ben Carson is one of the leading candidates for the Republican Party nomination for President. He does not believe that a Muslim can be President of the United States. He thinks the Holocaust would have been avoided if German Jews carried guns, but does not realize that most of the Jews murdered by the Nazis lived in Poland and Russia. He believes there is an inalienable Constitutional right to own a gun. In a Facebook interview Carson declared "I never saw a body with bullet holes that was more devastating than taking the right to arm ourselves away." Apparently he is not that familiar with the United States Constitution, but why should bigotry and ignorance disqualify him or any other Republicans from office. Jeb Bush brushed off the recent mass murder at a community college in Oregon as "stuff happens."

But the United States Constitution does not give "crazies" or Republicans the unrestricted right to own and use guns. The Common Core standards promote close reading of text. Let's take a close look at what the Constitution says.

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