Are Guns Really Going To Be Taken Away?

There has been a lot of conversation, communication, posts, talk, etc. regarding the possibility of guns being taken away from American citizens. Freedom to have guns has been removed from other countries, but the United States has not reached this point yet. It does seem that the powers that be, have been tiptoeing towards the point of taking the right to own personal weapons. There are also many more reasons, recently, to begin looking at tightening up gun laws, and perhaps taking the right to own a gun away completely. It seems that there are mass shootings in the news every day and many citizens are crying for the government to do something about this problem.

Just as many of us have heard many times, it isn’t the gun that kills people, but the person who is pulling the trigger. Guns do make it much easier to kill people, putting personal distance between them and the person being shot, which can make just about anyone a killer. My understanding of the U.S. constitution and the second amendment was that the right to bear arms was put in place to keep the government from ever having total control of the citizens. However, I admit that I am not a constitutional scholar, so my simple reasoning may need some elaboration, however, the second amendment is still in place. Legislation has been introduced over the years that clearly seems to target the slow and methodological…