One nation under guns

In 2023 there were 340 school shootings, 656 mass shootings and 42,987-gun deaths in our country. The basic truth about guns is that more guns equal more gun deaths 

The American gun culture is the story of how the 2^nd Amendment has been manipulated by a culture of acceptable gun violence. People buy guns and resist all efforts to regulate them because of their belief in a militant patriotism and frontier masculinity. Today’s gun culture combined with the 415 million privately owned firearms in our country is unregulated deadly power in the hands of individuals. Conservatives see the right to bear arms as self-defense against criminals, as protecting personal freedoms and protection against an oppressive central government. 

What is the real interpretation of the 2^nd Amendment? At the time the Constitution was written, the Founders disapproved of professional armies. There was a strong fear among the Founding fathers that a permanent national army could be used by the federal government against individual states. They instead preferred to ensure the security of the nation using state militias manned by the people. The Constitutional right of the people to keep and bear arms only applied to men who were enrolled in a state militia and had nothing to do with individual gun rights outside of the militia.