Amendment 2

"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 first half of this amendment was more relevant when we didn’t have the strongest military in the world. The back half has caused more controversy in today’s age than most amendments, at least here in the midwest. What is interesting is that it seems like half of U. S. citizens believe that having more strict gun laws will help decrease the potential for mass shootings, the other half believe that the government wants to take away their guns and they will then have no way to protect themselves. Although both are semi-valid points, I don’t think that the government will do anything too extreme, besides the fact that they need to do background checks on people who want to purchase guns. 

This video does a great job of explaining the 2nd amendment and what it meant when it was written. Now this is a more conservative view, but there is a bit of humor as they explain it so it is not an overbearing view, I just think it is explained well. He says that the right to keep and bear arms is a right for THE PEOPLE, not the militia, and this right cannot be taken away from the people by the militia. This is so that the militia does not have too much power over the people. 

Now this is a great example of why more strict gun laws, or at the minimum, background checks should be implemented for anyone trying to purchase weapons. The scary thing is that gun laws have not changed, even though our country has more mass shootings than any country in the world; that can be due to our large population size and also the fact that we have more armed citizens than any country in the world.