2nd Amendment Opinion: Rights are Guaranteed Right?

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.

If you agree or disagree with the second amendment of the United States Constitution, you have that right to voice that opinion. Its called free speech,  and I myself believe that you have that right because guns gave you that right. Make sense? Maybe not to some, and for many people in America, the second amendment brings only an argument with the words "Sandy Hook" somewhere in the mix.

Undoubtedly, the Sandy Hook incident was and is one of the worst school shootings to have ever happened in America. Knowing that children died while innocently attending school, shot by a deranged gunman, should inspire anger and disgust.

I myself find a tremendous amount of anger and sadness welling up inside of me when I read articles on Sandy Hook, or watch videos about it. I'm a parent, my kids attend a public school, and I can not imagine the possibility, nor the pain of losing a child in such a way, or in any way whatsoever for that matter.

Do I think there exists a need to amend the second amendment, or change the laws on gun control? Based on the Sandy Hook incident, or any other shooting incident? Absolutely not.

Now before I get labeled as a right wing, left wing, conspiracy theorist, gun carrying liberal, let me say this.... 

The constitution, right or wrong, should not ever be compromised by anyone based on crimes or political stances based upon incidents or horrific actions of others. This right granted to us, by the founding fathers of America, and by the bloodshed of American military, past or present, doesn't allow me to believe that the second amendment should be altered due to misguided or mentally ill people who killed by the use of a gun. Mainly because guns are and always will be a form of protection from harm, by either a house burglar or foreign enemies. 

America should always be armed, and any form of alteration to any of our rights granted to us by the constitution or the bill of rights, should be viewed as a path of ill will towards our freedoms as Americans. 

Changing the freedoms we have is nothing less than a standard declaration of inconceivable actions that would only inspire a revolt against the government of the United States. Such as where we are now, with many citizens standing on the grounds of belief that if the political powers were to make changes to the second amendment, it would mean our rights are in jeopardy. It would also mean America is no longer America, that freedoms guaranteed to us are meaningless, and can be changed at will by a government that no longer can be trusted. 

Basically, in my opinion, changing the 2nd amendment would mean the downfall of what America was or is supposed to be. With such an alteration, it would only deepen distrust in our elected officials, as if there isn't enough already, but honestly, it would spell the end of the meaning of "United".

The Militiamen movement has been subjected to ridicule, simply because these groups were formed under the terms of the Second Amendment. Whereas the rights explained therein are plainly written, and although there are plenty of different views and translations of that right, it is still a right that should not be infringed. Key word there is, infringed. No matter how you read or view it, or try to improvise the wording of that right, the one true unalterable phrase in the right is just that..."shall not be infringed."

So how can we as Americans give our government the power to say that those words can be ignored? Which in any case, if we allow one right to be dissolved, you can bet more will follow. So we might as well change "We the People", to "We the Elected" and just go ahead and disembowel the whole constitution and start over from scratch, right?

I feel that with the Sandy Hook incident and any of the number of shootings, even Dick Cheney's hunting accident, should be viewed as a result of poor and unobstructed stupidity, not as a tinderbox of changes needed to protect lives. There will always be crime, and there will always be a need to be prepared for crime. An armed American, with a clear mind is and always will be a strength that is hard to reckon with. Remove that strength, and all we will have left, will be an open door without a gun to guard it.