So,
the new hunting season has opened in the USA and the death toll is already over
20 schoolkids. The National Rifle
Association continues to promote every citizen’s right to carry a gun and in
fact suggests that the answer to the periodic school killings is to have more weapons
in schools. When claiming this right, they quote the United States bill of
rights of 1791. The founding fathers who
drafted and approved the bill of rights could not be expected to see more than 200 years into
the future and to understand just how lethal modern weaponry is. Therefore, I believe that every citizen
should be allowed to bear arms, but only arms of the type that were around in
the 1790s. With their slow loading and inaccuracy this would undoubtedly reduce
the death toll.
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