Right To Bear Arms Vs The Second Amendment

These studies that mental illness is also a reason to mass shootings, and that psychiatric diagnoses can predict gun crimes before they are even committed. Gun laws must be heavily reorganized, and in regards to the Second Amendment there must be changes while keeping the modern world in context. The regulation of firearms is a tough subject to push, as there is a community that exists in America that firmly believes in the right to bear arms, which delays any political progress happening on the issue. Mental illness in America has a bad wrap, it is treated as a personal flaw rather than a disease, and an average human may not seek treatment because there is a stigma behind mental illness, and there is a lot of risk to accepting the fact that …show more content…
Starting with congress, which is a cesspool of inaction and stagnation. All congress does is sit on their high thrones blocking progressive reforms while collecting checks. With the two-party system the country in a grid-lock, Democrats and Republicans continue to disagree on most of the issues the nation, it is hard for any change. While there are other independent parties, their notoriety is barely noted, the chances of a president coming out of a third party is abysmal at best. Democracy was created for the people to elect respected and trusted individuals in the community, with the prime purpose of having the peoples interest at heart, now politicians truly have no interest in what their people want, the only goal for politicians is to gain more power, and they will use deceitful means to attain their cherished positions. The introduction of money into politics was one of the gravest mistakes that Americans let happen. Money corrupts people, and politicians are people. Money influences politics more than the will of the people does now, the presence of money in politics actively corrodes the very ideals of democracy. The reality of politics is that you can not fix a thing without political power, and you can not gain political power without wealth, so it is no surprise that rich people run the world. By lobbying politicians to do their bidding, truly evil men like the Koch Brothers weasel their way into more wealth by cheating the system, and hurting others. Donald Trump is another representation of the degradation of politics, a man with no tact flaunts his wealth and uses it to gain support for his election. The worst part is that half of the country is willing to vote for him, Trump does not have the country’s best interest at heart, instead he will use the power to reform laws for his corporations to gain