Guns: killing or saving? America's gun problem

Woman kills three and turns a gun on herself What happened:   A temporary employee opened fire at a Rite Aid distribution centre in Harford County, Maryland, Thursday, officials said. The victims: Three people were killed and three more were injured in the shooting, officials said. The shooter: Sheriff's office officials said the shooter, a 26-year-old woman, died after she shot herself in the head. A woman opened fire at work in the US state of Maryland, killing three and injuring several others before turning a gun on herself, police said. The suspect was a 26-year-old temporary employee at the Rite Aid distribution centre in Harford County, according to the Harford County sheriff's office. The attacker, identified as Snochia Moseley of Baltimore County, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The motive for her attack is unclear. It appears only one weapon was used - a 9 mm Glock handgun...

      Introduction First of all, guns have been around for a very long time. The introduction of the Second Amendment opens up the controversial, yet well-anticipated opportunity for US citizens to be able to win guns.  It is one of 10 amendments that form the Bill of Rights, ratified in 1791 by the U.S. Congress.  RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS The text of the Second Amendment reads in full: “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.” The framers of the Bill of Rights adopted the wording of the amendment from nearly identical clauses in some of the original 13 state constitutions. During the Revolutionary War era, “militia” referred to groups of men who banded together to protect their communities, towns, colonies and eventually states, once the United States declared its independence from Great Britain in 1776. Many people in America at the ...

Here is a list of absurd quotes from gun-control proponents about the Second Amendment, gun violence, and guns that confirm, once again, that thinking before emoting is easier said than done. “The Second Amendment only protects the people who want all they can have. The rest of us, we’ve got no Second Amendment. What we are supposed to do?”  Rep. Louise Slaughter. Slaughter blamed the Second Amendment for violent crime, saying “Americans aren’t safe anywhere” and gun control “has to be done” to protect citizens from themselves and their constitutionally guaranteed individual right to own a firearm. 2. “Well, you know, my shotgun will do better for you than your AR-15, because you want to keep someone away from your house, just fire the shotgun through the  door.” Vice President Joe Biden. 3.   “We have federal regulations and state laws that prohibit hunting ducks with more than three rounds. And yet it’s legal to ...