The acquittal of a Minnesota officer in the death of a licensed gun owner who volunteered that he had a gun seconds before being fatally shot during a traffic stop adds to the worries of African American gun owners about how they are treated by police and society. This is a example of police ignoring the fact that back people has the right to bare arms also. ~James Powers II~

These drastic open-carry demonstrations may make the gun holders feel safe, but frighten the rest of the population. The NRA supports open-carry laws and stand your ground laws that allow an individual to react with deadly force if they feel threatened. Wouldn’t a person surrounded by citizens with assault rifles feel threatened?

There is only one way to do this: Repeal the Second Amendment.

Repealing the Amendment may seem like political Mission Impossible today, but in the era of same-sex marriage it’s worth recalling that most great causes begin as improbable ones. Gun ownership should never be outlawed, just as it isn’t outlawed in Britain or Australia. But it doesn’t need a blanket Constitutional protection, either. The 46,445 murder victims killed by gunfire in the United States between 2012 and 2016 didn’t need to perish so that gun enthusiasts can go on fantasizing that"Red Dawn" is the fate that soon awaits us. 

There are more mass shootings in the United  

By that definition, according to the Gun Violence Archive, we have seen 307 mass shootings from January 1 to November 5

That averages to almost 7 mass shootings a week

States than in any other country in the world; The second amendment is the partial blame for this. 

he Las Vegas attack was the deadliest shooting in modern US history (at least 58 killed), and it's only 10 years removed from the 2007 Virginia tech massacre(32 killed) and a year removed from the second-deadliest shooting, the Orlando nightclub shooting. November's shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas is now the fifth-deadliest shooting, with at least 26 victims.

In fact, of the 30 deadliest shootings in the United States dating back to 1949, 18 have occurred in the last 10 years. 

As is their custom, the justices gave no reasons for deciding not to hear the case. The court has turned away numerous Second Amendment cases in recent years, to the frustration of gun-rights groups and some conservative justices.

And yet, that same month, a 22-year-old black man named John Crawford III was shot dead by the police in an OhioWalmart after a white customer claimed excitedly that a man was pointing a gun at his fellow patrons. Later, the store’s security footage revealed that Mr. Crawford had been holding a BB gun that he had picked up in the sporting goods department, and that the caller’s testimony had been wrong. Ohio is an open carry state. That didn’t make much difference for Mr. Crawford.