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The Importance Of The Second Amendment

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The Second Amendment has become the most talked about the amendment in recent times. In recent years with terrorist attacks and acts of violence on the rise, many people are calling into question the specifics rights of the second amendment. Is it that guns need to be controlled or the people using them? After all, it isn’t guns that kill people, its people that kill people. The second amendment should be eliminated, because it increased the potential for crimes and the number of accidental gun deaths, creates an unsafe environment and legally owned guns are frequently stolen and used by criminals. The Second Amendment provides U.S. citizens the right to bear arms. Ratified in December 1791, the amendment says: “A well regulated …show more content…

Individuals that are against the second amendment often argue that having ordinary citizens that carry guns and weapons make the environment unsafe. For a lot of those against the right to bear arms, it is hard to fathom that everyone owning a gun will have the best intentions in mind, at all times. The streets have become a battleground because danger can happen at any moment. Women can be viciously attacked and raped and innocent children can be kidnapped in daily. We cannot ignore the damage that these criminals are happening in society, and we must take actions to stop these horrors. On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza killed 26 people — including 20 first grade students at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. He didn't have any prior criminal history nor treatment for mental illness (Vogel, Sari Horwitz, and David A. Fahrenthold 1). Even though, a normal person could carry a gun to massacre first-grade students. How about the people have the criminal history or mental illness? They also could get the gun so easily because of the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment is doomed to fail, however, because it isn't the criminal or the psychotic who produces the murder. There is no excuse or reason to kill a

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