Argumentative Essay On The Second Amendment

Gun violence is at an all time high in today’s American and around the world. Effectively changing the nature of man to kill another man is somewhat impossible a goal to achieve with laws and policies. However laws and policies can be put in place to curb the growing deaths from gun related violence and to a lesser percent gun related accidents. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "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." On one hand some believe this to mean the personal right of the people to own firearms, while the establishments counter argument is that a well regulated militia referred to in the amendment

The author Barrett Paul M quotes the former member of the U.S. Supreme Court John Paul Stevens who advocates changing the Second Amendment’s confusing language to clarify that it only applies to those serving in a militia as stated “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms when serving in the militia shall not be infringed”(Barrett). The Second Amendment is the backbone of the debate, and the changes that Stevens suggests brings to attention the fact that the Second Amendment refers to an armed citizen militia, and not personal gun

I would seem this is an issue that is focused on public and neutral to partisan bias. “Simple regulation of firearms—requiring permits to carry them, for example is seen by many as an infringement of their rights. Thus, moderate gun advocates are often drowned out by those who oppose any controls on guns. “There are nearly three hundred million privately owned firearms in the United States: a hundred and six million handguns, a hundred and five million rifles, and eighty-three million shotguns. That works out to about one gun for every American”( Lepore). But there are so few laws that are enforced to control this mass stock piling of arms. “A federal ban on the possession, transfer, or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons, passed in 1994, was allowed to expire in 2004”( Lepore). The majority of gun owners who own more than one gun are the loudest minority in fighting for the right to keep there