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The era of the cavalry saber was coming to an end. The 13 colonies expanded to the west based their conquest power on much more powerful weapons: the 1751 steel carabiner of the London armory Bumford, the Queen Anne pistol, the Griffin musket or the 1752 Spanish carbine. All of them fired a I just shot and had a good time filling them with gunpowder, putting the steel bullet and cocking them .
They were not very precise and were used not only for military purposes, but in large hunts or in duels of honor with strict rules. That was the world in which the United States was founded , in which it achieved its independence and in which the amendments to its Constitution were drafted. The second of them (1791), which regulated the possession of these artifacts, was limited to 27 words: "As a well-ordered militia is necessary for the security of a Free State, the right of the people to possess and bear arms will not be violated ".
It was an amendment for territories where the State had not yet been implemented and where security was provided by private armies or self-defense groups. Thus, with a carabiner in one hand and the Bible in the other, millions of European settlers went deep into the American West in search of land and wealth, cementing one of the main foundational myths of the American nation.
Last weekend, 29 people were killed in two shootings in Texas and Ohio. In both cases, weapons of war capable of firing 600 bullets per minute, the Russian AK47 and the American AR15, were used. These assault rifles, used by soldiers in conflicts around the planet, can be bought without problems thanks to that Second Amendment that regulated the possession of carabiners of a shot in North America three centuries ago where the State did not exist.
It is not that the Second Amendment has become outdated, it is probably already outdated in the nineteenth century with the emergence of some of the great outlaws William H. Bonney (Billy the Child, 1859-1881), Jesse James (1847- 1882) or Wild Bill Hickok (The Wild Billy, 1837-1867), capable of killing six people in six seconds with a Colt, Remington or Smith & Wesson revolver, triggering the trigger and the hammer consecutively on the drum as thousands of Far West cartoons . At that time, firearms ceased to be a deterrent of self-defense to become a tool to kill many people in a short time.
If we focus on the latest mass shootings, we always find weapons of war, sold in their civil version and in the hands of people poisoned with hate speech . Aurora (AR15), Sandy Hook (AR15), San Bernardino (AR15), Las Vegas (AR15), Sutherland Springs (AR15), Parkland (AR15), Gilroy (AK47) and El Paso (AK47).
The scarce existing regulation prohibits the possession of automatic weapons in the United States, as if owning a semi-automatic rifle did not mean a brake to fire a magazine, shot by shot, at a concert or at a demonstration. The difference is that in an automatic weapon, when the trigger is pressed, the bullets burst out. In this case the current legislation is also of no use , since the instruments to modify a semi-automatic weapon and fully automate it are legal , they are sent home by mail and anyone can install them in their AR15 without having to take it to a teacher gunsmith.
Should the Second Amendment of 1781 regulate these weapons?
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