Cassandra
Maldonado
Assignment
Due 10/10
POL 166
Revisiting the Constitution: Do We Really Need the Second
Amendment?
The quote I chose is from Melynda
Price; it states, “This nation was constructed and reconstructed in the
aftermath of violent and bloody conflicts. Still, the Framers believed that not
only the Constitution, but also the peaceful way the document was created,
would penetrate the Americans' minds and change they engaged.”
The meaning
of this quote is, aside from the nation being built on violence and bloody
conflict, the framers believed that because of how the document was created in
a peaceful way and because it’s a part of the constitution, it would change the
minds of the Americans. They believed that because it was written on paper and
it was written by higher authority and Americans are expected to follow it,
that it would be successful enough for Americans to stop the violence and
bloody conflicts. They’re wrong.
There is an
increase in society today when it comes to violence and bloody conflicts. That
is the reason I chose this quote. It can be written on paper by higher
authority, but that doesn’t mean that people are going to follow it. People
look at it as a piece of paper and don’t take it serious until they have to
suffer the consequences for their wrong doing. With the document being created,
more actions should be taken so that there can be a decrease in violence and
bloody conflict in our society. A change has to be made, this pattern has to be
broken. If this nation was constructed and reconstructed, then it should be
reconstructed again to put an end to the violence and bloody conflicts.
