Firearms, liberal laws and shooting incidents |
Cole Tomas Allen ran towards the hall of the Washington hotel where the White House Correspondent’s dinner was in progress on April 25. As he went through a security check point he was challenged by security personnel. A firefight ensued. Allen was overpowered. Meanwhile President Donald Trump, First Lady Melanie Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who were attending this most prestigious event in Washington’s social calendar, were whisked to safety. Many aspects of this event have attracted wide comment in the US and the rest of the world. What has not is the easy availability of firearms to US nationals under US laws which enables some to stage shooting incidents.
The subject of guns comes up whenever there is a dastardly shooting in schools, colleges, offices and public places and scores of innocent lives are lost. But such is the entrenched influence of the arms lobby and many US nationals’ addiction to firearms that no President or others in the country’s public life have been able to have the US Congress and States Legislatures pass laws that would limit the number of guns that are with private individuals. Why is this so? Where does the legal justification for gun laws lie in the US system?
The second amendment of the US constitution states “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of........