08-27-2015, 01:56 AM
This is all just one man's thoughts on the issue.
The forefathers created the amendment, with good intentions. However, it ingrained this idea that a right to bear arms (everyone disregards the whole militia thing anyways) is up there in importance with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That kind of mentality has made it absurdly simple to purchase a gun in this country. Any legislation attempting to reform that is met with resistance, and routinely shot down. This keeps it absurdly easy for anyone to get their hands on a gun. And as a consequence of it being so easy to get guns legally, getting guns illegally is not monetarily prohibitive either.
So it's not the guns in themselves, as some of the more narrow minded might think in a knee-jerk reaction. The problem I have with the sentence is that people have bastardized it into something completely different than the intention from 200+ years ago, and we refuse to admit it.
The forefathers created the amendment, with good intentions. However, it ingrained this idea that a right to bear arms (everyone disregards the whole militia thing anyways) is up there in importance with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That kind of mentality has made it absurdly simple to purchase a gun in this country. Any legislation attempting to reform that is met with resistance, and routinely shot down. This keeps it absurdly easy for anyone to get their hands on a gun. And as a consequence of it being so easy to get guns legally, getting guns illegally is not monetarily prohibitive either.
So it's not the guns in themselves, as some of the more narrow minded might think in a knee-jerk reaction. The problem I have with the sentence is that people have bastardized it into something completely different than the intention from 200+ years ago, and we refuse to admit it.
