Introduction
The Second Amendment states that “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep in bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This amendment protects the rights of citizens to bear arms such as guns to help prevent mass shootings. The Second Amendment is being brought up more and more due to gun violence happening more recently. When the second amendment was added to the constitution in 1791 they could not know how advanced are weaponry would become. They also couldn't of known what future gun violence would have looked like.
Legal Gun Attachments
According to the video Two legal Gun Modifications, the bump fire stock and gat crank can be added to a normal semi-automatic rifle to increase the rate of fire from 45-60 rounds per minute to 400-800 rounds per minute.The gat crank can also improve the rate of fire for a semi-automatic rifle although not as powerful as the bump fire stock, the rate of fire goes from 45-60 rounds per minute to 200-300 rounds per minute. I found out that if you search gun attachments there is a lot of sites such as Amazon selling gun modifications to all types of guns such as pistols or even AR’s. The article 6 Psychotic Gun Attachments states that you can buy a shell for your shotgun called “Dragon’s Breath” which is a suitable name considering it fires litteral fire from your shotgun, the fire comes from the magnesium the manufactures put in the shells. The same article also states that you can buy an attachment to your shotgun so it can fire a spear. There's also an attachment that can “bend your rifle” so it can shoot around corners, this weapon attachment is known as “The Cornershot”. The video Rapid fire 100 round double drum AR 15 w/ ACOG shows how powerful the attachment called the “double drum magazine” is. Which is a massive magazine that takes ten seconds of fully automatic bullet spraying to empty. You can buy them for everything from rifles and handguns to submachine guns and assault rifles. All of these attachments can be bought legally in the U.S. Many people in U.S think that these attachments are unnecessary and that these attachments are offensive opposed to defensive, there purpose is to inflict harm.
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The Columbine
On April 20, 1999 at 11:57 AM a mass shooting occurred at the Columbine High School, two men named Eric David Harris and Dylan Klebold were heavily armed with weapons and bullet proof vests. They killed a total of 13 people, 1 teacher and 12 students. According to the article Weapons At Columbine, Eric was carrying 10-shot Hi-Point model 995 carbine rifle on a strap, and Dylan was carrying an Intratec TEC-DC9 (9-mm semi-automatic handgun) attached to a strap. Both these weapons are very deadly. At the time this was the biggest shooting in american history, which just goes to show that more deadly incidents have happened over the years. Now the biggest shooting in american history happened in Las Vegas in 2017 leaving 58 people dead. The Columbine shooting has been recently discussed by the group March For Our Lives because the 20th anniversary of the columbine happened recently on 4/20/19.
Shootings
The article Teachers can carry guns in Florida states that due to the shooting in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida a new law was passed that allows a choice for teachers to carry guns. This is a controversial experiment due to adding more guns to the problem. A school shooting occurred on April 16, 2007 in Blacksburg, Virginia. The Virginia Tech shooting left 32 people dead and 17 injured. At the time this shooting was the largest shooting by a single gunman. Now the biggest shooting has up to 58 deaths and leaving almost 500 injured. This shooting occurred in Las Vegas On the night of October 1, 2017 when a single gunman released bullet spraying madness into a crowd of 22,000 concertgoers. According to CNN news another deadly shooting occurred on December 14, 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, leaving 27 people dead 20 of them children and 7 adults the children being 6 to 7 years old. The shooter then turned the gun on himself before the police could get there. These occurrences are happening due to availability to guns (learn more in first chapter) so if everyone who owned a firearm had a safe for there weapons, had reasonable weapons, and also kept weapons away from children then the problem would reduce considerably.
Activists On The Problem
According to the article Gun Violence Will Be Stopped By These 9 Young Activists, Kendra Woods is an 17 year old youth activist who was at school the day of the Parkland shooting. She participated in a walkout with at least 50 classmates in St. Louis, Missouri, and the classmates story went viral after school administrators kicked them from returning to school. According to the same article another youth activist who was apart of the Parkland shooting. Her name is Emma González and she is 18 years old. Her story was learned when she called out lawyers and the NRA or the National Rifles Association at a press conference a few days after the Parkland shooting. According to the article David Hogg (activist) David Hogg is a well known teen activist. At just nineteen years old he has participated in many gun violence protests such as the March for Our Lives program. He survived the Stoneman Douglas high school shooting, that's when he realized that he needed to say something or do something. These activists are making an important impact on gun violence by helping others have a voice in the subject.
Conclusion
I would like to reiterate that gun violence is a large issue in this case. It is a statistical fact that only 4% of shootings were related to mental health issues. Also, over 30,000 Americans die in a result of gun violence each year. This has been an issue in our Country for many years and it is turning into a huge problem that needs to be stopped.
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