2nd Amendment: The Right To Kill People?, Is it time to amend the US Constitution? Options

[hardbodyactiv]

Considering that USA have more deaths by the deliberate use of firearms than all 21 affiliated countries in Europe, Canada and Australia...approximately 500,000,000 (five hundred million) people, do you not think that it is about time that the US Constitution was amended to outlaw the purchase and use of firearms and restrict their sale to private individuals only for the purpose of hunting and only allowing these to be of the shotgun or rifle variety?

Long question I know and perhaps a bit deep...but most of you will at some time or other encounter a firearm incident if you live in the Continental US and it is even more likely if you live in certain urban areas or states such as Texas, Florida, California or New York. Perhaps this is due to State in addtion to Federal legislation and also perhaps an explosive mix of different social & ethnic backgrounds.

Please don't just post yes or no as you must have a reason to give an answer


Peace Out

[sadolakced acid]

guns don't kill people, bullets do. we need bullet control.

yea, that's corny.

the right to bear arms was not put as the second ammendment becuase they needed guns for hunting. rather, it was in response to the british policies regarding the colonists and guns.

the right to bear arms comes right after freedoms of speech, religion, press and petition. why? because the right to bear arms was important to the founding fathers.

now look at the bill or rights.

the real text.

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

now, this real text makes it obvious the purpose of the right to bear arms was to protect the state.

not the individual, but the state.

however, if you will look, it says "... necessary to the security of a free state..."

therefore, the right to bear arms is to ensure freedom. it is to ensure the army cannot take control of the country. (which happened a lot in europe). it was to ensure that citizens, once they'd expressed thier opinions on the government, published them, and put them in a petition, that the citizens would have the power to put the bullet behind thier words.

the right to bear arms is not about defense of self.
it is not about hunting.

it is about ensuring a free state

and that is still relevant today.