Gun Laws

According to the Professor of American Culture Robert M. Muth the number of deaths caused by firearms in the United States is 7 times higher than that of the United Kingdom, what does this say about their Constitution and the 2nd Amendment? Gun control laws should be established in The United States even though the 2nd Amendment is in their Constitution, the times have changed guns are no longer a necessity and too many innocent people are being hurt.

The 2nd amendment of the United States of America Constitution 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.” Many Americans believe that the Constitution represents their freedom and is what makes them more powerful and different than other countries, for this reason they stand against changing the Constitution, even though statistics show that firearms are the highest cause of death in the United States, nearly one million firearms deaths occurred between 1933-1983, Garen J. Wintemute M.D., M.P.H. stated in his Journal of Trauma-Injury Infection & Critical Care “Increased firearm availability is associated with increased rates of firearm homicide and suicide”.

The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution was included because of humanities right to self defense, the need for self support such as hunting and for communal defense (militia). To the colonist in the 17th century gun ownership was a necessity of life and when the colonists realized they had become their own people and that they needed their own country a desire for freedom grew within America, and the British responded with greater opposition ,so when British soldiers fired on the colonists, John Adams addressed the need to have a right to bare arms, he stated “Here every private person is authorized to arm himself, and on the strength of this authority, I do not deny the inhabitants had a right to arm themselves at that time, for their...