The Second Amendment Is Still Important And Should Not Be Repealed

Hopefully, we both can learn something. I'll be trying to prove 3 points: 1. The Second Amendment is meant as protection against a tyrannical government and is still important today. 2. The debate over gun rights vs abolishment of that right is actually Gun owners vs Non-gun owners. .. and I would like to make the case that this turns into an Informed vs ill-informed. 3. The legalization of gun ownership is actually in benefit of society, this does better than harm. Argument: 1. 'The Second Amendment is meant as protection against a tyrannical government and is still important today. ' A. The quote "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. " of the constitution has two connotations. The USA can keep a well regulated Militia for the safety and security of the people and the ability for a common citizen to keep and bear (use) arms. B. The people who wrote the constitution added the second amendment for they feared America would become another tyrannical state as was with Great Britain. This is a rational fear as though the 20th century many dictatorial countries have taken away the right for a certain ethnicity or opponent to the state to bear arms, as was with Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia. (REF. 1,2) The 20th century was not long ago, and it is not too hard to fathom a dictatorship forming in the US. It happened with Rome which was democratic and Nazi Germany which was also democratic, which is why this matters today. 2. 'The debate over gun rights vs abolishment of that right is actually Gun owners vs Non-gun owners. .. and I would like to make the case that this turns into an Informed vs ill-informed. ' A. The vast majority of people against gun rights are those who have never gone through the process of buying a gun, let alone owning one. Talk with anyone who supports gun control and they will tell you that while they don't own a gun, they know a lot about guns. This is complete nonsense, as with anything, to learn about it you need to have gone through a process of understanding how gun control and guns work. In a video on youtube, a man poses as a pro-gun control advocate and asks the people who come up to his stand to identify which guns are more dangerous than others. The thing is the hunting rifles are all the same and one was painted to look like an evil gun, and those who've never handled or used a gun called the evil looking one wrong then the same yet differently colored hunting rifle. This goes to show majority of non-gun owners are ill-informed (REF. 3,4) 3. 'The legalization of gun ownership is actually in benefit of society, this does better than harm. ' A. Guns are used hundreds of thousands of times every year in self-defense. Tens of thousands of rapes and sexual assaults are prevented and even more lives and personal property. Anyone with any basic knowledge of firearm statistics would absolutely see them as a benefit. People say that firearms cause 30,000 plus deaths a year. This is a major fallacy because 20,000 of these are suicides and 2/3's of the remaining deaths are gang or drug-related. (REF. 5) B. I go on to say that gun control causes societal harm as well. In Britain where guns are outlawed and only special police forces can use them, the crime statistics show that thieves and burglars actively seek more often to invade people's houses while they are home because 1. they residents have no defence and 2. since they have no defence it is more productive to also steal the belongings on the person(s) who are home. (Ref. 6) Not only this but if a woman were to be carrying a gun on her, there would definitely be a less likely chance of her being raped compared to pepper spray and rape whistles. References: 1. . http://www.nationalreview.com... 2. 3. . https://youtu.be... 4. . https://youtu.be... 5. . https://en.wikipedia.org... 6. . https://www.rsgsecurity.co.uk...