Our 2nd amendment right to kill kids

 Our 2^nd amendment right to kill kids

 

"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." – second amendment to the Constitution of the United States.  Even though the wording makes it clear that the amendment refers to a militia not to individual citizens, it has regularly been interpreted as applying to the individual as well.  In doing so the Constitutionalists ignore the genesis of the amendment and its relation to the British not allowing local miltia.

That being said the United States has more guns in the hands of civilians than any other first world nation, and more than some second world nations.

What does this have to do with children?  Plenty.   At the present time more children are being killed by gunfire than for any other reason.   Nineteen percent of all children’s deaths in our country are by guns! That exceeds auto accidents that come in at 18%.   Dropping into single digits are disease, drugs and abuse.

Students are asking us for gun control.   One student recently said “guns are too deadly.  At least with a knife you have a chance.”  And a little child shall lead them.

Too many homes have guns that kids get into.  Children are killing each other during play.  They are killing each other in arguments and they are being killed just by being in the path of an adult fight.  In some neighborhoods children are not allowed to play outside after school for fear they will be in the crossfire.   Some children have been killed in their homes when errant bullets come through the window.

It is unclear to me why people feel the need to have a gun.  Most gun homicides are not the result of someone committing a crime or even protecting oneself from a crime.  They are the result of someone known to the victim being angry and acting out.   Shoot immediately, repent at leisure. 

Now this proliferation of guns has come to be the leading cause of deaths of our children.  But still, we want more guns.  Children are not committing crimes and their childhood is being taken away and traumatized by guns.

The second amendment gives us the right to do that.   Tell that to all the parents of dead children.