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Originally Posted by richard s
Wiping out the majority of Native American tribes, almost making the buffalo extinct.. still hunting defenceless animals, killing school kids and numerous adults.
Fact gun deaths out strip car deaths in the USA.
The right to bear arms SUCKS big time.
Make America Great Again (Trump)... really!
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It does suck because it is a so outdated piece of the U.S Constitution.
Let's look at the text of the 2nd Amendment from 1791...
“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.”
When that text was written and formed part of the U.S Constitution in 1791. Semi-Automatic guns and rifles had not been invented and wouldn't be until another 100 years later. I'm sure the right to bear arms granted over 200 years ago, did not grant the right to bear arms of such powerful weapons, but because the 200 year old text is so ambiguous, as well as out of date, owning such powerful guns is perfectly legal.
If this was not the only issue. Every week, infact, even today, there is a story of negligent gun owners in America, leaving their legally owned gun, for their young kids to find and shoot and blow their heads off or the sibling or both.
But tragedy after tragedy of gun violence, talk of altering or changing the 2nd Amendment, would still be sacrilege to many Americans.
Even if America adopted a more stricter gun control program, the problem would be, closing the stable doors, after the horse has bolted, as the amount of guns still in circulation, would see the issue of a gun control system seem too little, too late.