title: The Second Amendment and the American Gun: Evolution and Development of a Right Under Siege
author: Jim Fleming
description: Jim Fleming is an attorney at Fleming Law Offices in Monticello, Minnesota with over 33 years of trial and appellate court practice experience. He is admitted to the Bar in Minnesota and previously to the State Bar in Nebraska. He has been accepted to the Minnesota Bar of the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. He has argued both civil and criminal appellate cases in the State appellate courts, as well as before the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a network affiliate attorney and serves on the Advisory Board for the Armed Citizens Legal Defense Network (ACLDN), is on the Legal Panel for CCW Safe, an affiliate attorney for the Critical Response Team of the United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA), and is an Advisor for the Minnesota Gun Owners Civil Rights Alliance Legal and Educational Action Fund(GOCRA-LEAF). Jim is the author of AFTERMATH: Lessons In Self-Defense  What To Expect When the Shooting Stops and has written several articles published in Concealed Carry magazine. He is a former college level instructor having taught Constitutional Law and Jurisprudence for the University of Nebraska, Nebraska Wesleyan University, and the College of St. Mary in Omaha, Nebraska. Jim has also provided continuing legal education seminars for attorneys and continues to lecture nationwide on self-defense related legal topics. In addition to his legal work as an attorney he is an NRA certified firearms instructor in the disciplines of pistol, rifle and shotgun. Jim is also a certified firearms self-defense instructor for legal aftermath for self-defense shooting as well as basic and advanced pistol shooting classes for the company he co-owns and operates as Mid-Minnesota Self-Defense, Inc. with this wife, Lynne Fleming in Monticello, Minnesota.
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  ## CONTENTS
  
  
  
  
  
  [Author’s Note](../Text/part0005.html#author)
  
  
  
  
  
  [PART ONE: The Truth about Guns](../Text/part0006.html#ch01)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“It’s Time for America to Have a Conversation about
  Guns.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev1)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“We Should Start Drafting a Bill to Ensure Newtown Never Happens
  Again.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev2)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“Guns Are Lethal.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev3)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“No One Wants to Take Your Guns Away.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev4)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“Well, Can’t We at Least Clarify the Second
  Amendment?”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev5)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“That May Be, but Even Thomas Jefferson Wanted the Second Amendment to
  Expire.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev6)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“The United States Has the Highest Gun Murder Rate in the Developed
  World.”](../Text/part0006.html#ch01sec1lev7)
  
  
  
  
  
  [“Okay, but the Overall U.S. Murder Rate Is Much Higher than Other Wealthy
  Countries’.”](../Text/part0008.html#