By the time humanity has the maturity and responsibleness to allow all persons in a society to own and use firearms, we will have already realized that such a right is not necessary or desireable. Disappointedly, this point in our evolution looks to be far into the future. Firearms technology and the ease of ownership exceeds humanities ability to control the amount of senseless killing that people with guns perform. Be it intentional, accidental, self-inflicted, by-police, by-criminals, mass-murder, serial-murder, or war - it really is all the same. The evidence is indisputable, we have not evolved to the point to permit a right for all people to own and use firearms. Even those that require firearms to protect the rest of society, make serious errors in judgement. We need to realize that it's human nature to make these kinds of errors. It was almost 220 years ago that the second amendment was ratified out of fear that a federal standing army would threaten the security of individual states. So the right to maintain well regulated state militias was deemed important for individual states. I agree with former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens this this point of view is an out-dated relic of the 18th century. I also support Steven's call to repeal the second amendment. Until we do this, we will continue to see escalations in mass murders, serial murders and accidental murders using ever more powerful weapons. Until we do this, we will continue to have single-issue organizations like the NRA controlling the votes of our Senators and Congressmen. Imagine a society where the police don't have to shoot first, ask questions later out of fear for their own lives. Imagine a society where weapons ownership and use are a privilege for those that have a reasonable need, are well trained, and have demonstrated a responsible character.
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