The Second Amendment continues to be debated even centuries after the Constitution was written. It reads, "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." Americans wanting to protect an individual’s right to own guns relies on the ‘right to bear arms’ portion of the Second Amendment, while those working to reduce the number of gun related deaths in the US by regulating gun ownership are concerned with the ‘well-regulated militia’ portion. It is hard to know exactly what the framers of the Constitution were hoping to accomplish by including this in the Amendments to the Constitution. Scholars have tried to make educated guesses as to the