As we get told after every mass shooting in America, the right to bear arms is in the constitution and nobody has yet come up with a way to change the constitution, let's call it an amendment for arguments sake.
Luckily America has these already and have a history of amending existing laws enshrined in the constitution to improve the lives of its citizens with the most famous being the 2nd Amendment which allows for the owning of weapons but there have been a number including the one before that mad law which sees tens of thousands of Americans shot to death each year.
Amendment 1 made the freedom of speech a thing and the 3rd stopped soldiers from being posted in your home without your consent while the 4th Amendment meant that Americans could no longer be searched at any time for any reason without a warrant.
The 5th Amendment protects individuals from being forced to incriminate themselves in a criminal prosecution and without the 6th Americans would not be entitled to a fair trial-by-jury.
Without the 8th Amendment punishments for crimes would still be excessive, cruel and unusual and slavery would still be legal if the constitution had not been amended by the 13th which abolished it.
The 15th Amendment gave black and Hispanic people the vote, the 19th meant women could join them in the polling booth and after the 26th Amendment, US citizens over the age of 18 could also vote.
Far from not being able to do anything to end the awful and lethal gun laws in America, the mechanism is there to change it and they are called Amendments for a reason but it seems to leave things as they are and just look solemn and mumble something about 'thoughts and prayers' is the preferred way to deal with the additional 40,000 bodies with big holes in them clogging up the cemeteries each year.
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Amendment, there is a massive clue in the name.
What about the right not to be shot and killed in a school or in a club or at a concert? They forfeit that right because you and your gun toting crackpots want to play the big man with guns? If you think mass shooting of children in school or concert goers is a price worth paying just so you can play with guns then you are screwier than even I thought.
Wacky gun nut logic, would be funny if it didn't mean so many people died because of it.
I would say the logic of someone who doesn't dismiss 40,000 deaths of your countrymen as a price worth paying for you to feel a big man and own a gun.
You should be here, you will hear much worse, me saying you wanting to play a big man with your guns is very mild.
I know that you are not big on giving certain people rights so i guess the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights where it clearly states that 'stupid shit like health care' is indeed a right passed you by.
Too easy, far too easy.
Damn right, who does the UN think they are making acts that improves things, damn cheek.
See i would be cute about it and not ban guns but make them so damn expensive to own by either smacking a large tax on the gun themselves, introducing a very expensive license or making the bullets eye-wateringly expensive so i could say there you go, you can have all the guns you want to the second amenders but you are going to have to really want them because they will cost you alot.
Just keep going with the thoughts and prayers thing then because that is working so well for you.
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