The Second Amendment Pros And Cons

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The Second Amendment (in the constitution) is one that can bring up hours and hours of debate, maybe the most of them all. These debates, unfortunately, will never come to an end because there will be know agreeance in what would be done. In my opinion, what is trying to be done right now is not going to work, the politicians in office right now want to stop the weapons and not the perpetrators. Every time there is a mass shooting/bombing the idea of gun control comes up and it is not going to get us as a nation anywhere because that is not the issue. We know who is doing these mass murders such as the Boston bombings, Paris attacks, San Bernadino shooting, and Brussels attack that happen just this morning, stricter gun laws would not have …show more content…

He begins his novel with the events leading up to the writing of the U.S. Constitution and leads into the ratification and the changes that came with this great document in history. In the coming years there would be violations of the Constitution by the coming president and after some small debate the Constitution was cleared of any bumps it had at the time. It was soon after that talk over the Bill of Rights emerged and it was even more shortly after when the Bill of Rights was not a talk, but an actual document which would include the famous Second Amendment. This amendment would go into full affect and it would cause more trouble than Framers probably ever imagined. It would be, then and now, misinterpreted and cause some troubles that some would say cost more than its worth. This part and the parts to come are, I would assume, going to include a lot of history; history of the amendment, why it was made, what it meant then, and how it was used in the past (or how it affected everyday life). Due to the fact I’m not well educated in this I am excited to see what else I end up …show more content…

History of the Second Amendment is all throughout this book, it starts with the history of the Constitution and leads into the more specific Bill of Right, then ultimately boils down to teach the history of the Second Amendment. We are educated, by this book, on what happened back then when debating about the Second Amendment. This is a really cool concept to learn about because what happened then can be compared to what is happening in the recent years and they relate more than not. There is a lot of shared debates on who should have what guns, what kinds of guns should be available, and rather or not a change in laws would cause any change in issues. This book has interested me more than I originally thought it would because I have a hard time enjoying history but this wasn’t just a debate on the amendment, it was both a history lesson and full circle of the ongoing