Second Amendment Rights in America

Another horrific tragedy struck the United States in the Washington D.C area on Monday. According to Fox News, Aaron Alexis, an American veteran, entered the Washington D.C Navy Yard and shot and killed twelve people and was killed during this rampage. Because of this, I feel it’s appropriate to talk about gun laws and how it could affect us in the long run.

 

 Ever since the Second Amendment was passed during the original Bill of Rights, Americans have been able to own and carry guns with them. But with nineteen mass shootings over the past four years, some Americans, Congressman and even Barack Obama have considered making stricter laws on gun ownership and have tried to pass laws to get stricter background checks on people wanting to buy guns. As I do agree with the attempt for stricter background checks, I do not agree with Congress trying to “change” our Second Amendment freedoms of owning and carrying a gun. Another thing is that not only is this unconstitutional but wrong to tamper with something that we can never really control. It’s not the gun’s fault for pulling the trigger and killing or harming innocent people, it’s the person’s fault. It’s like saying that pencils misspell words or spoons make people fat! It’s not the objects fault it’s OUR own fault for these types of actions that can be stopped and we need to look at ourselves before the guns.

 

 As long as these weapons are used by a human being and not moving and shooting by themselves we need to look at who’s the real problem. We need to spend more time helping these people who have mental disabilities and sicknesses rather than blaming it all on the firearm itself. With more veterans than ever before PTSD is becoming very common. This can lead to traumatic mental issues that can lead to something like what happened in Washington D.C. The shooter who killed twelve people in Washington D.C had symptoms of PTSD, which could have led to what had happened on Monday. We need to get these people help for their problems and needs, to make sure these types of things don’t happened as often and even better not happen at all! So remember next time you’re hunting or just on the range shooting you’re gun that you’re the one pulling the trigger and whatever a person does with that is his or hers responsibility not the weapons.