Washington, D.C (The Adobo Chronicles) – The powerful and influential National Rifle Association (NRA) has launched a nationwide campaign that it hopes would lead to an amendment to the Second Amendment.
The Second Amendment has been the single biggest roadblock to gun control legislation in the U.S. It protects the rights of ordinary citizens to bear arms. It was ratified on December 17, 1791 along with the other nine amendments that make up the Bill of Rights. While it is a very short amendment, its exact meaning in terms of what types of weapons are protected is still in contention today.
The NRA proposal is both comprehensive and limiting. It seeks to affirm and clarify the right to own guns outside of “organized militia,” while reserving this right only to Republican and Republican-leaning states.
Text of the 2nd Amendment
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
NRA’s Proposed Amendment
“Guns of all types, being necessary to the happiness and security of the Red States, their right to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
NRA is preparing to roll out full-page newspapaper ads, radio and TV commercials, biilboard and bus poster ads and email marketing campaigns in the next few days.
The NRA is coming to a place near you, that is, if you live in a red state.
New Delhi, India – India may just have found the solution towards gun control, and other countries are closely watching.
A gun company in this nation of 1.2 Billion people has just manufactured a gun designed for women: light, sleek and pink. The idea of a pink pistol came about as a result of increasing rape and violence against women. In its marketing campaign, the gun manufacturer says that “it is time women started carrying guns to protect themselves from rapists and attackers.”
Now, the Indian Parliament is considering passing a legislation that would ban the manufacture of all guns, except the pink pistol. The measure is expected to reduce gun ownership among men who constitute 77 percent of all gun owners. The legislators believe that the pink pistol will discourage men who are much concerned about their “macho” image from purchasing this deadly weapon.
Under the proposed legislation, current gun owners will be given six months from the passage of the law to surrender their firearms or trade them in for pink pistols.
The American National Rifle Association (NRA) is reportedly very nervous about this Indian legislation and has mobilized its top lobbyists in Washington, D.C. to make sure that no such legislation is introduced in the U.S. Congress.
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