Alexis Blaim
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Our Second Amendment shall not be taken away or infringed with from us as citizens of the U.S this is our own right and part of the Bill of Rights. This right has brought a lot of confusion to the world and how it should be used. We as citizens need to stop pointing the guns at each other and put them down for once take control. Now, we blame our own Amendment for the mistakes we create as people it was never the gun itself it is the person and heart behind the gun. Why take the right from everyone when it’s not everyone’s fault for what goes on and is still going on to this day? Our Second Amendment should stay not be taken this is protection for us citizens it’s just used wrongly.
According to the official site of USA Today they have said that almost 30% Americans own guns to this day that is actual very low for people who live in America. Also, 357 million guns are in the country and that’s just an estimated amount we have all these weapons for a reason to protect. Gun violence can be used incorrectly but the purpose to have this right is to originally protect us from the war going on. “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” The framers of the Bill of Rights. This just means that back then we had this right to help protect us during the Revolutionary war. We didn’t have the government full help or security, so we had to protect ourselves on our own. This right was created on Dec 15,1791 and these guns we our able to keep on us or in our homes are not the real weapon, and that’s why people have gotten confused with reality. I know it is not right for this right to be used wrongly but sometimes to have good you must balance it with bad. There have been to many school shootings and to many deaths in our own areas. Think about this though how many of those killings were done because of the fact it was the guns fault and not the upset human being behind it. I believe if we are taken away this right, we our taken the right of way from someone who might need that gun to protect family. You cannot take away a right the Constitution had created no laws can be destroyed only created. There are reasons why these laws were created and made a long time ago.
I have had a personal experience with this situation here at Des Moines public school East High had a protest not too long ago over whether we should have the Second Amendment. Here at East High in I believe it was second block we could leave the class to march to the capital. Before anyone marched to the capital, we had people give speeches about why they felt this was right thing to do. I sat from my classroom above them watching over they were fighting to get rid of protection. They gave very good speeches, but I felt as though they were wrong. How can you fight against the Bill of Rights? After their speeches the protest began to happen schools from all around Des Moines public schools walked to the capital or eve drove. Now, what happened there had blew me away they went peacefully and broke out in violence there were kids getting hurt an even someone had gotten hit by a car. Peaceful protest about violence should not go down in violence like I said it is never the gun itself. The people mindset behind the gun their anger is what makes our Amendment look bad when it is not actually that bad. What we should do is not sell guns to people with already bad backgrounds. If you want to buy a gun there should be restrictions and background checks just so you can see if that person already had a bad influence in doing bad things and using weapons. This way we have no more shootings and drive by or any type of killing
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