In the article titled The Other Problem with Trump’s Second Amendment comments, Donald Trump falsely accused Hillary Clinton of being too strict with the Second Amendment, causing people to take matters into their own hands. Trump made careless comments about Clinton when he stated if Hillary Clinton ever became President “Second Amendment people” could take matters into their own hands. Trumps comments about Clinton are misleading. Clinton’s support of a reasonable gun law in the United States is not the same as abolishing the whole amendment. She has tight gun restrictions but never once has she said nor indicated that she wants to abolish the Second Amendment. She just wants more laws to protect the citizens and many families that have been affected by the use of illegal guns in communities. …show more content…
Even if Clinton wanted to repeal the Second Amendment it’s not in her power to do so. To amend the constitution is a very difficult and hard task to do. Politicians thrive on portraying other candidates running against them in a negative way, and will say anything to lesson their chance of winning the election, Trump isn’t alone when it comes to that many have done it. But there should be limits on what politicians say about each other, it’s degrading of their name especially if the comments aren’t true. All of our laws and constitutional rights have limits. For example, if someone screams out a threat in the movie theaters then that is a reasonable limitation of the First
The second amendment grants the right to bear arms for all citizens of the United States of America. Recently though, this amendment has come into question because of how people are abusing the rights given to us only to protect us. Instead of using the weapons to help protect America, recently many events have taken place where the right to bear arm has caused more harm than protection. Millions of people have lost their lives because of the lack of strict gun laws. Many of those people are innocent kids, kids who had so much potential all taken away from a gun. The Washington Post, recently posted an opinion piece by Adam Ross called “I’ve had guns pointed at me, I’m glad I didn’t have one.” In the article, Ross relates his personal experience
We have had several of the worst mass shootings in our nation's history in quick succession over the past few years. Certain legal restrictions and acts from our government could have prevented numerous deaths. Common sense background checks and limitations to cartridge size and assault weapons would surely have saved many lives at the Las Vegas Massacre, but certain men and women claim that these restrictions violate their second amendment right. They claim that guns aren't the problem. That guns don't kill people, people kill people. So limiting access to devastating guns is just avoiding the problem. The Second Amendment right presumably violated by common sense gun control is “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” (Second Amendment). The Second Amendment states that for the need of a well regulated militia to protect the security of the free state and the right for the people to keep and bear arms. Militias have been inactive for decades so in a sense the intent of the amendment is no longer relevant. Based on the 2nd Amendment, the Constitution is not still a valuable and viable document in modern America because it stands in the way of thorough background checks, training courses, and its vague wording and absolute intent make it inefficient to maintain peace and order and should be amended “To the People of the United
Every day in America an average of 93 are killed people due to gun violence. One of the biggest concerns today in American policy is gun control. This is a very controversial and complicated topic for both pro-gun and anti-gun supporters. American policy makers need to make it harder for the wrong people to obtain firearms and the fact that Second Amendment and gun control can co-exist. Mental illness constantly emerges in relation to mass shootings and shooters a like, as well as day to day homicides and suicides. America doesn’t necessarily have more crime then other developed countries the crime is just much more lethal. Right-wing Republicans constantly use the Second Amendment as shield to use firearms, the fact is the document is
Although the 2nd Amendment only contains one sentence, the interpretation of it can be misconstrued if the use of critical thought is not applied during the analysis. Supporters of gun control argue that the ambiguous language in the 2nd Amendment leads to confusion about the interpretation. That in itself warrants further discussion about rewriting the 2nd Amendment or simply eradicating it. Also, the provision is outdated and no longer coincides with the times. In regards to the addition of “well regulated militia,” guns were meant to protect people from tyranny and any form of militarized government suppression. With that said, firearms should alternatively be restricted from other uses with
"You can 't move past it. You can 't sweep it under the rug," expresses a surviving Sandy Hook School teacher. "We have to honor the horror by paying tribute to what happened, what people went through and what it was like for everyone" (Blickley, 2016). The brutal murder of twenty beautiful children and seven brave adults at Sandy Hook elementary school was a tragic event that shook, not only, Newtown, Connecticut, but the whole nation to its very core. However, this grievous crisis was not the first of its kind; since 1999, there have been over 130 shootings at schools. Moreover, the last thirty years, there have been an additional sixty-two mass shootings (each leaving at least four dead). This leaves no room to question the necessity for gun rights reform (as cited in Stinebrickner, pg. 67 CITE). Therefore, America published an editorial titled "Repeal the Second Amendment." The primary purpose of this article is to call for an examination of the implications, advantages, and (potential) consequences associated with the second amendment. Based off of increased mass shootings, extensive research, and keen observation of how other countries have managed the gun crisis, "Repeal the Second Amendement" determines there ought to be increased gun restrictions.
Gun control is a big debate and if the United States should keep the Second Amendment. With all the recent crime a lot of the Democratic candidates want to take away gun rights away. The Second Amendment was created in the year of 1791. (shmoop.com). Many changes in history were about if The United States Should keep this right or not. Several of the states wanted to take this right away because of the violence, but if they do take this away, it will not stop the amount of violence in the world because there are many other deadly weapons that people can use. Citizens of the United States believe that the United States the right to own and buy weapons away because of the amount of crime that happens each year with with a person using a firearm
The world is a dangerous place to live. Every day, we wake up, send our children off to school and spend most of our lives working. We put ourselves in harm’s way every time we leave our homes. At any moment, we could be killed in an automobile accident, plane crash, gunshot wound or any other random occurrence that happens in this crazy world we live in. There have been so many advancements in technology and medicine to protect ourselves from these lucks of the draw events that life throws at us, but some people seem to have a problem with gun ownership. Gun ownership for many is viewed like the seatbelt of a car or the vaccine given to us to prevent the Flu, it is a form of protection and security. Some people in our country would argue that there needs to be a banning of fire arms or more restrictions to keep fire arms out of people’s hands. I disagree with this idea. I feel that Federal and State governments should not bad firearms or make the purchasing process more difficult. It is every legal citizen right to bear arms, whether it is for protection or sport.
For the candidates that are running for the presidency Hillary Clinton is one of the candidates that is for gun control, " her gun control plan, promising that if she’s elected, she’ll ban some guns and impose other restrictive gun control laws, in some cases without Congress’ approval.”(daileycaller). Clinton would
Former president Bill Clinton commented on gun control, saying "When we got organized as a country, [and] wrote a fairly radical Constitution, with a radical Bill of Rights, giving radical amounts of freedom to Americans, it was assumed that Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly .... When personal freedom is being abused, you have to move to limit it." We 've misused this "right to bear arms" and have been forced to take many precautions regarding the bill. Gun control, or, the lack thereof, has struck a fear in many that has spread quickly throughout the nation. Our culture has ingrained the second amendment into itself, using it as a "pass" to do almost whatever.
As you all now Hillary Clinton is running for president but I bet what you didn't know is she wants to ban guns all over the United States of America (U.S.A [U.S]). Now I bet your wondering "why is she doing this" well she thinks that "guns/arms kill men" instead of "men kill men". Also the reason why the title is named "Hillary C. breaking the 2nd Amendment" is because she .... well she just is ,because the 2nd amendment in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution (note: one of the most valuable piecing of writing in all of the U.S.A) states "we have the right to bear arms" which means any where in the U.S people have the right whether to use or not use guns and Hillary is trying to change that. The solution
The article “Treasure the Second Amendment, but Ban Assault Rifles” discovered on Opposing Viewpoints was originally published at NewsMax.com, and authored by Judith Miller. The title suggests a forthcoming article in which the current interpretation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution is expressly valid, but will present an argument for the banning of Assault Rifles. However, this article provides no evidence or statistics to show how an assault weapon ban might have success, but instead, argues it's position by bemoaning apathetic past and current presidents, detailing several horrific tragedies seemingly attributed to the expiration of the previous ban, and singling out a specific assault weapon, but fails establish a legitimate argument against Assault Rifles.
An Analysis of the Misunderstanding and Distortion of the Second Amendment in the Gun Control Debate
citizens as well as those in a militia. The late Supreme Court Justice, Justice Scalia believed it
Mrs. Clinton has clearly stated in her campaign that she is not in favor of making the Second Amendment legal in all 50 states by saying, “You shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun with no questions asked. You shouldn’t be able to exploit loopholes and evade criminal background checks by buying online or at a gun show. And yes, if you’re too dangerous to get on a plane, you are too dangerous to buy a gun in America,”(1.“Hillary Clinton 2016”). With this quote, we clearly see that Hillary Clinton believes that buying a gun without question is completely unreasonable, which leads to her wanting background checks on all purchases of guns in the United States. I agree and believe this statement is highly important to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign because she is summarizing that if in any case resulting purchases of guns, there needs to be more concern on why and how these guns will be enforced. Also, Hillary Clinton is providing a lawful and more logical approach on protecting citizen’s safety by gaining checks and seeing who is rightfully fit to own a gun and who is not. Therefore allowing these background checks, Hillary Clinton states that it can prevent and not allow abusers of violence and the mentally ill to handle such weapons that could harm themselves and the lives of innocent victims. Another major component to the Hillary Clinton gun control
Gun control in the United States is a very controversial topic in today’s political society, leaving the nation divided into two sides with two strongly opinionated beliefs. This all started with the increase in the amount of mass shootings and an overall increase in gun violence. The two sides consist of the liberal point of view and the conservative point of view. The liberals believe that the availability of firearms to the people in the country is a major issue, and that the U.S. government is at fault for the mass shootings due to the lenient regulations on guns. In retaliation, the conservatives argue that having a gun is a God given right, that the Second Amendment of The Constitution. Although the availability of guns is seen to be