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One more mass shooting in the U.S. and the Second Amendment has become a topic of controversy again.

The founding fathers wrote that a well-regulated militia constituted the general purpose for the Second Amendment. In times of war and invasion, that made a lot of sense; today, given what people are doing with guns in the U.S., the Second Amendment is becoming something a lot of people want to get rid of.聽

I have shot a lot of black powder guns, flintlocks and those sorts of things, and during the era that the Second Amendment was written, there were high capacity guns available. Some of them were the Lorenzoni repeating rifle, the Harmonica rifle and the Porter Turret rifle. All were all high capacity designs that co-existed with single-shot muzzleloaders.聽

In a world where most people could only afford a surplus muzzleloader or a bow and arrow, the guns mentioned above would have been effective if used for a mass shooting, moreover if someone could not afford a fancy repeating gun they could make a bomb and toss it into a school if they wanted.聽

However, during the era that the Second Amendment was written in the U.S, there was not a single mass killing at the hands of a mentally ill individual that has been reported or discovered. That has a lot to do with what guns were used for back then.聽

On dark streets without lights, with no wireless communication and shoddy police enforcement, it was a dangerous world and guns were used for either actual self-defence or hunting for food.

Things have changed a lot since the Second Amendment was written and I believe that a gun background check system, similar to Canada, would prevent a lot of mass shootings in the U.S., however, the Second Amendment is very clear in that Americans have a right to bear arms.聽

The Second Amendment is a tricky thing to talk about, because in North Korea today or Nazi Germany in the past those who have been rendered defenceless and later enslaved have died in much larger numbers than all the mass shootings in the United States combined.聽

One should never put faith in the good nature of human society. If there is one thing that is clear throughout human history, it is that good and evil conquering entire societies is cyclical and whether it is ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, the British Empire or the Soviet Union, all societies whether good or evil, come to an end.聽

I have read the Federalist Papers and as much revolutionary American philosophy as I can get my hands on, and I think most of the founding fathers of the United States, if they knew what we know now, at the end of the day would still support the Second Amendment.聽

The U.S. has always had a unique and very dark history because they were and still are the only human society that was founded on the idea of making the government subordinate to the people, and to a constitution that has in it enshrined the inalienable and natural rights of all humans.聽

Their dark and twisted past, for example, would be the U.S Confederacy, the country as a whole was founded upon liberty, but its people were only willing to extend that right to people of a certain skin colour.聽

Today kids and concert goers are getting gunned down, and amidst all the bloodshed and broken dreams, is the lingering question of what if the Constitution wasn't written properly?聽

Would that then mean the philosophy that it is based upon is wrong? Maybe the founding fathers didn't just want to wage war on Britain, but they wanted to wage war on the human condition and God himself. Human history is nothing but a story of various types of governments being built up and then falling apart or being torn down, and people die in the millions every time.聽聽

Maybe right to free speech, to bear arms, to liberty, life, property and the pursuit of happiness was an idealistic approach to breaking the cycle of human history that may not ever be breakable.

I don't have any answers but personally given the cycle of human history, I would rather march under the banner of freedom and liberty than join sides with the idea that humans, like wild animals, need to be disarmed and controlled to live peacefully.