Assertion: dissenter's right | /r/CapableOf | bear arm
Facets:
value: for self-defense
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: According to a report in Bloomberg Businessweek, Stevens writes in his new book that he would qualify “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms” in the Second Amendment with the phrase, “when serving in the militia.
text: Together, these decisions recognized that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms for self-defense that is not dependent upon service in an organized militia, and that this right binds the acts of federal, state, and local officials.
text: According to Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in Heller, “The debate with respect to the right to keep and bear arms … was not over whether it was desirable (all agreed that it was) but over whether it needed to be codified in the Constitution.”