In John F. Kennedy's book Profiles in Courage, he defines political courage as one's need to maintain his own respect for himself and because of his conscience, his personal standards of ethics that is stronger than the pressures of public disapproval and his course was the best one, that it out weighed his fear of public reprisal. In my personal opinion of political courage, I believe it is doing what one feels is right besides …showed first 75 words of 932 total…

…showed last 75 words of 932 total…of our constitutional right to bear arms. I believe if a senator did try to make a law against handguns, it would not be because he wants to restrict the peoples right to bear arms, but he fears for the others who are victims of handguns. In my opinion, this would be political courage because he would be trying to make a difference in a way that could possible help the nation as a whole.