Should the constitution protect private gun ownership? Should the Constitution protect private gun ownership? This is an arguable question with two developed sides dating back to when the constitution was written and the second amendment was developed. After the American revolutionary war in the seventeen hundreds, our new country needed a basis of government, rules, rights and ideals. The fathers of our country wrote these rules and regulations which there was an unanimous agreement on. They named this writing "The Constitution of the United States of America." One right the constitution gave the people was the second amendment written in 1791 which stated. " A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." There are controversies about this amendment, however. In the present, the second amendment and private gun ownership is said to be hurting our citizens rather than protecting them. This is an arguable statement, however. Several major court cases have had an impact on private gun ownership since the second amendment was written. These cases forced additional rules to apply to private gun ownership to make it safer.The citizens whom appose private gun ownership feel that the second amendment has no real meaning in the present and it was only written to ensure our freedom and undeveloped country from hostile take over. America is a now a strong world power and the threat our new country had is obviously past tense now. They also feel that guns have a better chance of hurting people rather than helping someone and making guns obsolete will solve the problem of most homicides. Statistics show that hand guns are the most common weapon seen in homicides across the nation and some states which do not allow private gun ownership have much lower homicide rates than we do here in America. Guns also rank among the highest accidental deaths. T...
