Following
the news events of the last few days, I decided to deal with a sensitive subject,
the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
“A well regulated Militia, being
necessary to the security of a free State
All
Americans favourable to the right to bear arms are hiding behind this
amendment. The problem comes, however, when we see the year when the amendment
was adopted. We are talking about 1791. Europe is facing the French Revolution, Australia United Kingdom United States
If we consider the year of
adoption of this amendment is comprehensible the needs of American citizens to
defend themselves, but since then things have changed. After nearly 222 years
the law requires an urgent action if we want to avoid incidents such as the
massacre of Connecticut
President
Obama has taken a serious engagement in this sense, but it will be a hard
battle against the powerful lobbies pro weapons. We just have to wait and see
what happens. We are hopeful of a positive result.
Sources: http://www.tg1.rai.it/dl/tg1/2010/articoli/ContentItem-18cc0990-561b-4772-8f32-a89852c237a8.html?refresh_ce
http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_Am2.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aIXL9-0G6Y
The Connecticut massacre was an unbelievable event and the uproar concerning the right to carry firearms is still ongoing. Few days ago Obama declared that the second amendment in 1791 Bill of Rights “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” will be challenge. The amendment allows individual to carry arms, but in the history (in particular the XX century commentary) this individual right was interpreted as a collective right which entails a substantial limitation to the nowadays tendency of American citizens. Although recent judgments of the American Supreme Court reflect the “individual right” interpretation, the Obama attempt to change the right is praiseworthy. He has appointed to his Vice Joe Biden to come up with a set of recommendations on gun laws before February as he’s said “There’s a big chunk of space between what the Second Amendment means and having no rules at all and that space is what Joe’s going to be examining.” This position is well accepted by Western Europe leaders, in fact, other than Switzerland, Norway and Great Britain (all with a lots of restrictions), no other country consider this right to be in charge of common citizens. The struggle against pro-second amendment lobbies will be hard for Obama, but I hope that he will succeed. Recent years of massacres taught a painful lesson, citizens with guns are more dangerous than useful.
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