Banning Handguns
Banning Handgun Sales: Public Attitude toward “the right to bear arms”
On April 16th, a young Virginia Tech student, named Seung Hui Cho, committed a massacre on campus. As a result, 32students were murdered and 25 were injured (Wikipedia). In Southern California, Gian Luigi Ferri bought a TEC-9, he shot and killed eight men and women while wounding five victims before fatally shooting himself in a stairwell. These gun-related crimes illustrate why the second amendment is such a highly debated and polarizing issue.
The first ten amendments to the constitution were ratified as a means to prevent the national government from limiting personal freedoms. James Madison introduced 12 constitutional amendments during the First Congress in 1789 as a response to critics from the Anti-Federalists who argued about the lack of protection of individual rights in the new Constitution.
The founding fathers intended the second amendment to guarantee an individual’s rights to possess certain kind of weapons under certain circumstances. However, the language they used was abstract and not clear to interpret it for both law makers and people led later to confusion over its intended meanings. The second amendment “the right to bear arms” the word “people” was among the ambiguous words used by the founding father when writing the second amendment. There is a group of people who interprets the word “people” as an individual, another sees it as militias the founding father meant as they would provide security to their states’ citizen in a time was no federal military yet and the safety of the people rely on each state of America. “The right to bear arms” caused a hot debate in the public as some people see owning a gun as a God-given unalienable right, while others see it as a relic from a time gone by when society was less civil and personal protection was up to the individual. Still, others point to the fact that handguns sales and the loopholes associated with purchasing
On April 16th, a young Virginia Tech student, named Seung Hui Cho, committed a massacre on campus. As a result, 32students were murdered and 25 were injured (Wikipedia). In Southern California, Gian Luigi Ferri bought a TEC-9, he shot and killed eight men and women while wounding five victims before fatally shooting himself in a stairwell. These gun-related crimes illustrate why the second amendment is such a highly debated and polarizing issue.
The first ten amendments to the constitution were ratified as a means to prevent the national government from limiting personal freedoms. James Madison introduced 12 constitutional amendments during the First Congress in 1789 as a response to critics from the Anti-Federalists who argued about the lack of protection of individual rights in the new Constitution.
The founding fathers intended the second amendment to guarantee an individual’s rights to possess certain kind of weapons under certain circumstances. However, the language they used was abstract and not clear to interpret it for both law makers and people led later to confusion over its intended meanings. The second amendment “the right to bear arms” the word “people” was among the ambiguous words used by the founding father when writing the second amendment. There is a group of people who interprets the word “people” as an individual, another sees it as militias the founding father meant as they would provide security to their states’ citizen in a time was no federal military yet and the safety of the people rely on each state of America. “The right to bear arms” caused a hot debate in the public as some people see owning a gun as a God-given unalienable right, while others see it as a relic from a time gone by when society was less civil and personal protection was up to the individual. Still, others point to the fact that handguns sales and the loopholes associated with purchasing