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School shootings are increasing in USA. This is the narrative from the MainStream Media (MSM). This apparent phenomenon is being used to push an agenda to disarm the US citizenry, contrary to the second amendment. I’ll address the second amendment later. First, I want to address the premise that the problem is guns. If the existence of guns is not the problem, then the premise is that citizen access to guns is the problem. I call this a failed premise. Here’s why.

Let’s consider statistics of US deaths per year from school shootings vs other causes of US deaths per year. According to the Mass Shooting Tracker, there have been about 500 US mass shooting deaths per year in the past five years, increasing each year. In the same years, there have been about 37,000 US motor vehicle crash deaths per year (source: IIHS) and about 900,000 US medicine-caused deaths per year (source: Gary Null).

If we are going to blame deaths on access to guns, then we must also blame more deaths on access to cars and to medicine. These are only two examples.

Now, I’ll address the second amendment. When I first learned about the second amendment in a History class in school, I was bewildered. The other rights in the other nine amendments of the Bill of Rights made sense to me. They seemed like important rights. Yet, I wondered why anyone would care about a right to bear arms.

Here are some things that I was not taught in school. Nine of the thirteen colonies refused to ratify the US Constitution unless and until it included those ten amendments. The second amendment is not really about guns. The second amendment is about the ability of citizens to use guns to defend themselves from their own government. I was surprised when I learned this.

Nonetheless, it makes sense when one evaluates this idea more closely. The colonists felt the need to defend themselves against the U.K. government. Beyond that, people throughout history have eventually felt the need to defend themselves against their governments. With that in mind, it’s scary to realize that the US government is currently one of the most powerful governments in the history of the world!

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