Whose Right is it anyway?

There is a tremendous fight going on in America today regarding gun control laws. There are those who say that strict gun control violates the terms of the Second Amendment (the right to bear arms).

There are other who say that perhaps this right should be violated, if it will prevent disasters such as Columbine from occurring. The arguments and catch phrases in this fight are well known, and the gun control issue has become one of the major elements of political platforms. My opinion on it? Guns should be illegal. Period. End of discussion. Their majority of guns only purpose is to kill people, despite what all of those ‘huntsmen’ in the NRA have to say.

How many Americans eat deer on a regular basis? How many Americans know someone who has been killed or injured by gunfire? I think my point has been made. Then, there is the cry that if the current gun control laws were more stringently enforced the problems on guns falling into the wrong hands would be over. Hmm… it seems that plenty of people are wrong fully killed by guns in the ‘right’ hands as well, and an odd majority of them are minorities of color…of whom the NRA has a very low percentage of in their membership. Am I going somewhere with this? Yes…’bear’ with me.
In the constitution, the right is given to all American citizens to be able to bear arms. Now, I (just out of curiosity) checked the definition of the word arms.

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
A means (as a weapon) of offense or defense

According to the Cambridge International Dictionary:
Weapons and equipment used to kill and injure people

According to the Webster’s Revised and Unabridged Dictionary:
Instruments or weapons of offense or defense

Are you noticing a pattern here? In NONE of the definitions are guns specifically mentioned. Perhaps I am just a deadly & bloody minded woman, but just off of the top of my head here is a list of things that are also considered arms, according to the definition of the words
Knives
Nunchucks
Bow & arrow
Staff
Fists
Feet
Sword
Ax
Ice Pick
Spear
Rope
Pipe
Hands


And I am sure, given this list, most people could also come up with a few more things that can be considered arms under the definition given by the previous dictionaries.
So...my problem is this. What is stopping the American Government from declaring guns to be illegal…really? Clearly, it would not be violating the First Amendment, as there are still plenty of arms left for Americans to legally bear. Thus, it would just be a change to it. And think of how many times the Constitution has been changed already…to give me, for example, the right to vote took three different changes to this hallowed letter of the law. What then, is stopping the government from making a change to the document that will give hundreds of thousands of people a chance to pursue Life?
Perhaps…in America today, life is not worth nearly as much as the NRA’s dollars.

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