Over the weekend there was a shooting in Arizona where a local congresswoman who was holding a rally was shot, along with 19 other people. US. house of representative member Gabrielle Giffords was shot by a district member who apparently was disgruntled by the way things have been going since she was elected in 2006. I have seen countless hours of media footage and stories from different angles, about how they try to paint the shooter as a loner to being linked to Sarah Palin's Tea Party movement. The one thing I haven't seen the American media do is bring up how none of this would even happen if the second amendment was taken off the books years ago. The right to bare arms is one of the original 10 United States Constitutional Amendments, and 322 years ago when it was written it was fitting. The times were unstable, Americans needed to protect themselves from the threat of invading armies from all over the world and even right here in this country. 322 years later, the law is absolutely ridiculous. If people didn't have such easy access to guns, these things wouldn't happen on a daily basis. I hate to always point to other nations, but look at the examples set in Europe where people can't readily access guns when they want to. School shootings are far less popular, and assassination attempts are limited. The argument that guns don't kill people, people kill people is 20th century, we need to look at the facts. Americans having access to guns in 2011 is pointless, the threat of invading armies is long gone, the only two reasons people buy guns today, are to hunt and to shoot other people. A Republican might argue that hunting is a persons right in society, be it that it may, its a right that I can live without, as could 300 million other Americans.  ¶ 12:56 AM