We must protect the Second Amendment, but mightily defend life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for our people. And we can. Safety and responsibility is the right place to start.

For most of U.S. history, the second amendment was rarely invoked to challenge laws, until a bank robber used it to justify ownership of an unregistered sawed-off shotgun, launching a legal battle.

But if we're talking modern history, the last 100 years or so, the Second Amendment was not tied in any way to individuals owning a gun until the 1980s. To set the stage, let me tell you about a ...

People hold candles during a Jan. 16 candlelight vigil for the victims of mass shootings in California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) In his Jan. 24 op-ed, “We already know how to prevent mass ...

The Second Amendment amended Article I, Section 8, Clause 16 and prohibited Congress from organizing the militia in such a way as to exclude “the People at large” from militia membership.

No matter how sweeping the court makes the Second Amendment, we the people can choose not to exercise it, now or later. Call 988: Finally, a three-digit suicide prevention hotline.

However, the actual text of the Second Amendment is not simple: 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 ...

“We always will defend our Second Amendment, without it we have no country,” Rigas said. (WLNS) People at the march feel recent laws have weakened their gun rights and they’re worried about ...

The Lansing-East Lansing metro area has about 540,000 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It’s a big small town. Everybody here knows lots of people who study at MSU, work at MSU as ...