Right To Bear Arms In America

America is a highly armed nation. While the police carries about 897,000 firearms, private citizens carry about 270 million weapons. This staggering statistic makes the United States the number one gun country in the world, with 88.8 guns for every 100 residents, followed only by Yemen with 54.8 guns per 100 residents and surprisingly Switzerland with 45.7 guns per 100 residents (cbg.ca). This tradition of carrying guns stems has been guaranteed by our Founding Fathers, who stated in the constitution, “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.” Indeed, the Second Amendment guarantees that all Americans have the right to bear arms. Trying to change these terms in the constitution seem

However, though embedded in America’s history for more than two hundred years, the Second Amendment must be dissolved due to skyrocketing homicide rates, terrorism, and mass shootings.

The right to bear arms must be curbed since the homicide rate is rising in many parts of America. The issue of gun control is most pressing in America’s murder capital, Chicago. Just this year, 87 people have been shot and killed while 391 people shot and wounded. While the total number of homicides in Chicago is 92, 87 were murdered by a gun. In February of 2017 alone, 34 people have been shot and killed. (Gorner). This statistic was denounced by Father Pfleger who, along with Reverend Jesse Jackson, carried a cross through the streets of Chicago as a form of protest, “there is a much