"So Cowardly and For These Vile Guns.
Shortly after eleven o"clock on April 20th, 1999, at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, two outcast students walked in through the cafeteria door carrying with them shotguns, rifles, and pipe bombs. They went on a rampage killing twelve students, one teacher, and ending the massacre by killing themselves. This is one of the examples how people are out of control with guns and the government needs to make limits in the second Amendment. .
The constitution is the basic set of rules for all laws for the whole United States. (Katz 1974) Amendments are "add-ons" to the Constitution and are meant to make it more useable by the people. Amendments can only be made by two thirds of both houses of Congress or by application of 2/3 of the state legislatures. The reason that it took such a large number of people to agree to the changes is that it should not be changed for minor reasons. (Katz 1974).
The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights. Although the individual rights of American citizens were not a part of the original Constitution, it was ratified because the addition of these rights was promised. George Mason of Virginia wrote the Bill of Rights. (Katz 1974).
The Second Amendment says, "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." (McClenagham 1994) A militia is a group of trained reservists ready to defend their community in emergencies. (Katz 1974) An example of a militia is the National Guard. .
Back in the 1700's, the framers of the Second amendment were armed with state-of-the-art military firearms. When the British said that the American colonists did not have the right to keep and bear arms and marched to Concord to gather weapons from the Americans, the Revolutionary War began. (Roleff 1997).
Many families (during this period of time) had a gun in their house to protect their family and home from invaders.
