evidence: Today there are people who want to take our right to bear arms, they wish for gun control and gun bans, although they don’t see that without our guns we cannot protect them, the same people who wish we couldn’t carry or own our weapons. Even our government has tried to push gun regulations on us. This is what Thomas Jefferson was trying to tell us! The second amendment to me means the right to stay free and protect the people who I care for, the American people. [...] Man will be tempted, government leaders will take advantage of their power for control, and darkness may fall over the land, but as long as good men are not idle, evil will not thrive. The second amendment enables the good to take action against evil. Thomas Jefferson put this best when he said, "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Our second amendment is important because it gives good men the ability to protect those self-evident truths from a corrupt and overreaching government.