The Root of the Right

(What follows was originally a comment on a piece written for this challenge. I decided to submit it as a chllenge entry because it pretty much says what I think about the Right To Bear Arms.)

I think shooting as a sport is totally fine, it is a skill to refine and demonstrate and there is joy in that. But still I think the second amendment stems from something unsavory. The right to bear arms to protect the free state, yet at the time this was written there were many 'not free' in this so called free state. Which group of people were empowered by that amendment? Yes I think people need to defend themselves when threatened, but is owning a gun not preempting paranoia driven scenarios. Many countries do not have a right to bear arms and people sleep quite snugly at night. Back to the unsavory behind this amendment. If a country is established through violence and deceit, well then it follows that the government and citizens feel a need to assert their right to bear arms. There is always a lingering, even if minimal, awareness of the vanquished. And they are pissed off.