Amendment #2

     As I was watching television on the weekend, I was horrified with what I saw on CNN. Gabrielle Giffords, an American politician was shot in the head while giving a speech on January 8th, by a 22 year old man, named Jared Lee Loughner in Arizona. Not only was she critically injured, but 9 other people were killed and many others wounded.
       It just disgusts me when terrible events happen like this in America, all because of their gun laws and their crazy views on politics. Everyone has the right to own a firearm, says amendment #2 in the American Constitution. As a result, many Americans think it's all fine and dandy to keep a gun above their fireplace; the Constitution says so. First of all, the Constitution was written over a hundred years ago in a time of war. There were no alarm systems and your neighbors lived miles and miles away from you, you definitely needed a gun then. But in today's modern day society, not a chance. Most Americans live in a home with a alarm system, or have a phone and have neighbors close by, a gun is not needed. Giving citizens guns is a bad idea. 
        If the gun laws in the US were stricter, shootings like this wouldn't happen. After all, any one in America can buy a gun. Some politicians say "people chose how they act. We can not influence them to kill or use weapons in a negative way." But, no, no, and no. Sarah Palin actually, on the homepage of her website, placed crosshairs on every state with democratic representatives, symbolizing America needed to get rid of them . Gabrielle Giffords is a democrat. There was a crosshair located on the state of Arizona. If that's not a good enough reason to get change the ridiculous gun laws in the USA, then I don't know what is.