POLL: Should America's President "Rule with an Iron Fist"?

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This is an opinion poll, beginning with the word "should".

What's your opinion on the question?

If it all came down to just one issue for me it would be the Second Amendment. Our right to bear arms sets us apart from most nations.

Right to keep and bear arms - Wikipedia

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Countries that guarantee the right to keep and bear arms include the Czech Republic, Guatemala, Switzerland, Ukraine, the United States, and Yemen.[/i]

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United States​

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.[15]

Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
Main article: Right to keep and bear arms in the United States
Further information: Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

Generally, where modern constitutions refer to arms at all, the purpose is "to allow the government to regulate their use or to compel military service, not to provide a right to bear them".[9] Constitutions which historically guaranteed a right to bear arms are those of Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Liberia, Mexico, Nicaragua, and the United States of America.[16] Nearly all of the Latin American examples were modeled on that of the United States.[10] At present, out of the world's nearly 200 constitutions, three still include a right to bear arms: Guatemala, Mexico, and the United States; of these three, only that of the United States does not include explicit restrictive conditions. Until 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court had never struck down a law aimed at regulating guns. The first ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court on the second amendment, United States v. Cruikshank in 1876, permitted states to restrict firearm ownership by minorities, ruling the first and second amendment only applied to the federal government, not state governments and laws. This ruling was overturned in 2008, as a result of the case of District of Columbia v. Heller and, two years later in McDonald v. Chicago the U.S. Supreme Court held that states could not restrict the ownership of handguns for self-defense within the home.[9]

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