Second Amendment: The Right To Bear Arms

The second amendment states “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.” This amendment is one of the best rules that our forefathers gave us when they wrote the constitution. It allows the people to have some sort of defense if the government decides to rise against it’s own people. However the weapons that middle class people can own are nothing but amazing. The second amendment is good; however, it needs some restrictions on what ordinary people can buy and use in their homes.

It is legal with the right amount of background checks and the right licences to own a flamethrower. A flamethrower is an incendiary weapon that shoots controlled
bursts of fire 50-80 meters. This weapon is mostly used for the military and some forms of the weapon is used for farming. Those used for farming aren’t really a weapon however when the middle class have access to it without using it for the right intentions it is kind of hilarious. The second amendment does give the american people the ability to own arms, but it does not state that people have an unlimited right to own guns. “On June 9, 2016 the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 7-4 that "[t]he right of the general public to carry a concealed firearm in public is not and never has been, protected by the Second Amendment…

Why do we have middle class people need firearms besides handguns. It is not and never will be necessary for the middle class to own them. If they would like to use them for sports they can go to arranged events or go to a gun range. If it is for hunting then they need through background checks to make sure that he or she could not be a danger to society. The laws for guns will change in the future whether it is for better or for worse has yet to be decided. But the fact that in chicago there were 57 percent more homicides than last year is not a coincidence. Evil people are starting to understand the amount of power the government is giving and now they are using it to their advantage.

Teenagers are also starting to own guns.
I know four people that own pistols and some of their relatives own assault rifles. “Among 38 states studied, 5.7% of high school students from states with stricter laws carried a gun in the past 30 days. In states with weaker laws, 7.3% of students carried a gun in that time.” Teens cannot own any sort of weapons let alone firearms. Teens haven’t grown up into who they were supposed to be and some of them are extremely violent (but so are some adults.) Having stricter gun laws will help to lower the percentage of kids and teenagers who “own” weapons to decrease because some adults would be turned off to buying a firearm which would not allow their kids to get a hold of
it

"What I think is two things, number one, that restricting the right to keep and bear arms is unconstitutional.” The second amendment also protects individual gun rights.
This does not mean that everyone may own whatever they want and to show that we are all responsible we need to change the laws now rather than later. In conclusion, gun laws now are of average effectiveness, but the safety of our families and our country relies on the strength of these gun laws and we need to take the initiative now rather than later to change them and empower
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