The Protections Provided by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution

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One of the principle things is that personal self-defense is the primary purpose of the Second Amendment. It Is very easy to say that guns make people crazy and also if one person has a gun it will provoke the person to kill people. But in fact many people believe that “guns don’t kill people, people kill people.”(Wayne LaPierre, 2012) Saying this, I want introduce The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution which protects the right of individual Americans to keep and bear arms regardless of service in a militia. Also, it protects the right of any person to the possession, use and transportation of weapons for defensive purposes, sports, hunting, etc. The word “gun” is becoming a stronger word though passing the years; for this reason many people start protesting the amendment creating the right and the wrong side and also supporting it. In the case of Americans were writing the Constitution over again in 2014, would it make sense to include the right to bear arms? Or has it become uncool? Is for this reason, in the world right now there are people who think one person should not bear arms. On the other had there are people who think, a person needs to arms to for protect themselves.
In 1787, one group of writers of the constitution united and worked to design in the Constitution. In the long history of the U.S. Constitution, over 5,000 amendments have been introduced in Congress; only 33 of these amendments have been formally proposed by Congress. Thus, the Second Amendment was adopted on December 15, 1791, as part of the first ten amendments comprising the Bill of Rights. Furthermore in one part of the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security ...

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