By Mike Exton on 2/19/18
www.TheBibleComesAlive.com
With so many madmen today using guns to commit murder, why don’t we just abolish the 2nd amendment? Wouldn’t that solve the problem of murder for once and for all? Just think how much safer everyone would be if the government would just outlaw guns and confiscate everyone’s weapons. America would become a near utopia society, right? Violent crime would become a thing of the past! Just think, no more mass shootings at schools, no more mass shootings at churches, and no more murders in the city of Chicago where 762 people were murdered in 2016 alone. Wow, wouldn’t that be wonderful! Or would it?
The 2nd Amendment of the Constitution of the USA states that “…the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
Our founding fathers wrote this amendment to the Constitution (as one of 10 amendments contained in the Bill of Rights) in 1791. And the main reason they wrote this amendment was so that the citizens of the United States would be able to protect themselves in case an authoritarian government ever came into power. Not only would we be able to protect ourselves from an oppressive government, but even more importantly, a well-armed citizenry would act as a deterrent from such a government ever forming in the first place.
Just imagine how much easier it would be for a tyrant to rise to power in America if guns were confiscated. But if American citizens are armed to the teeth this scenario is much harder to imagine. And that is the main purpose of the 2nd Amendment — to protect America’s citizens from tyrants and oppressors who would abolish the Constitution and take away our rights and the freedoms afforded to us in the Bill of Rights.
But, not only would abolishing the 2nd Amendment make it much easier for a totalitarian government to take over, but it would also be the start of the abolishment of our entire Constitution. Because once you abolish one Amendment, it’s just a matter of time before another Right (such as the right to freedom of speech) falls by the wayside, and then another (such as the freedom of the press), and then another (such as freedom of religion). And before you know it we would not be any better off than North Korea or any other oppressive government among us today.
No, our founding fathers knew what they were doing when they wrote the 2nd Amendment. And if you think otherwise, then quite frankly, you are being naïve.