Policy definition
The 2nd Amendment
Gun culture
The Patriot or a Founding Father
100
This is a course of government action or inaction in response to public problems.
What is public policy?
100
This interpretation of the Second Amendment argues that the right to bear arms only applies to ownership of firearms in connection with service in a militia.
What is the collectivist interpretation?
100
According to the Pew Research Center, Nearly ¾ of gun owners in the United States today cite _______ as a major reason they own a gun.
What is for protection?
200
According to this theory, with the formation of government, people agree to give up some freedoms in exchange for the order of living in a civil society.
What is social contract theory?
200
In the landmark decision District of Columbia v. Heller (2008), the Supreme Court reversed a century of legal precedent, ruling that the Second Amendment protects:
What is an individual right to bear arms for self-protection separate from militia service?
200
True or False: George Washington thought highly of the militia and praised them throughout the revolutionary war.
What is false?
300
True or False: Federal judicial decisions are considered public policy.
What is true?
300
True or False? The Second Amendment reads “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, a well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State.”
What is false?
300
Instead of one gun culture, America can be said to encompass many of these.
What are subcultures?
300
"There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking."
What is Founding father?
400
Fill in the blank (same word): Public policy debates reflect not only society’s most important ______ but also conflicts over______.
What are values?
400
Constitutional scholar Akhil Amar wrote this of the Second Amendment: “At heart, the Second amendment reflects a deep anxiety about a potentially abusive ______________.”
What is federal military/standing army?
400
True or False: Concealed carry gun control laws were among the most popular early gun control laws.
What is true?
500
Gun control is a ______________, making it a high controversy policy type.
What is regulatory policy?
500
While no direct evidence exists that this document served as a model for the Second Amendment, it is widely considered by historians to be its forerunner.
What is the English Bill of Rights (1689)?
500
Demographically, gun owners are more likely to be _____, ______, _______, _________.
What is male, white, rural, having grown up around firearms?