People always want to change the laws rather than those who BREAK the law. Guns still don’t kill people, People kill people when they break the law. We are still trying to blame something other than the guy who was guilty of pulling the trigger - it was premeditated murder! Now, he needs to be tried, convicted, and sentenced. Some might say he was insane, but I don’t believe that excuses his actions. He knew what he was doing. Changing the 2nd amendment won’t stop people like him - but it will stop US from protecting ourselves FROM people like him.
Absolutely! I seem to remember reading last week that the gun crime in DC has gone down, since legal gun ownership was finally allowed. Criminals are less likely to prey on ordinary folks, if they're unsure whether or not those folks are armed for self-defense.
Permit me to disagree. The Second Amendment didn't grant the right to keep and bear arms, such rights are unalienable, beyond the power of men to change. The Second Amendment exists to declare that the Right should be free of governmental encumbrance. When the government seeks to remove it, keep in mind that governments are instituted among men to preserve their rights, and those governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Attempts to remove the Amendment serve as the alarm bell that those who are our servants would have us forget that, and that is time to revoke our consent, by whatever means necessary, for those persons to govern.
With or without the Amendment, the Right exists. It only remains for us to exercise it.