This is the most common opposition to gun control. The Second Amendment 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.” While it is true that the Second Amendment enshrines the right to bear arms, it was written with the intention of protecting the right of states to maintain militias and that they have the right to bear arms, not individuals. It is not an unlimited right to own guns. It doesn't even give individuals the right to own guns. Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger said of the proposal that the 2nd Amendment seeks to protect the right of every American to own firearms: "... one of the greatest examples of fraud, I repeat the word 'fraud' on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my life. The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – militias – were maintained for the defense of the state of the Second Amendment itself refutes any argument that it was intended to guarantee every citizen an unrestricted right to any kind of weapon he or she.