Class Reflection

I felt very bittersweet about class. It's amazing to think I knew so much about my other classmates (politically speaking), and then bring up such a hot-button issue like gun-control and realize how wrong my perceptions were. I don't understand even the smallest bit why anyone thinks they need an automatic weapon in order to be secure. I'm not sure they have a constitutional right to that weapon, but until the second amendment is clarified in the supreme court, people are free to legally acquire firearms like that I suppose. What I thought at first to be a gender bias, was quickly rejected. I have a feeling in our class, our views on gun control might correlate with the size of what we consider our 'hometowns'. I'm not even sure there is a correlation. It's very interesting to me. There are so many trends in politics, and our class does a fair good job fitting in those trends, except for the gun control issue.

I believe the constitution grants you the right to bear arms, for the purpose of forming a militia. You do not have the right bear arms if you do not plan on participating in the militia. There should be a limit on the number of fire arms you can possess. There should be tighter crack downs on arms trading. People should not be allowed to carry a concealed weapon, unless they work in law enforcement. There is nothing natural about firearms. I'm somewhat repulsed by it's sheer ability to destroy life. A firearm has never produced something positive without a tragedy happening somewhere else. I'm just very anti-gun apparently, but then again I've never shot a gun, my mom does not own one, so I may be the least qualified to judge on the topic. As far as the comment that can be construed as racist, that is for that person to clarify.