U.S. decreed right to be armed
The United States Supreme Court has strengthened the individual right of Americans to be armed. In a landmark ruling on how to interpret a constitutional right in 1791, the courts have rejected a ban on possession of the firearm that was in force in the city 'in Washington.
The decision has split the nine Supreme Court justices, who were in favor 5-4. Judge Anthony Kennedy and moderate 'combined with four conservative members bringing them to the majority.
The judges thus lifted the ban, which was in force for 32 years, to keep weapons in his home in the District of Columbia, where it is located Washington.
Questo ha chiarito meglio il secondo emendamento che era ancora dibattuto in tutti questi secoli.
Perciò da oggi gli Stati Uniti riconoscono la possibilità di essere armati come diritto costituzionale, paragonabile al diritto di voto o della libertà di espressione.
C'è da ricordare che gli Usa sono il Paese con più morti per arma da fuoco.
Le armi da fuoco, quasi una per ognuno dei 300 milioni di abitanti, causano 30000 morti l'anno.
Nel 2005, su 30694 persone 12.352 risultano vittime di omicidi; 17.002 di suicidi; 789 casi si sono rivelati incidenti; 330 persone sono state uccise in interventi della polizia (221 casi sono incerti).
Il numero dei feriti, secondo le 2005 statistics, more than double of the dead and for young people is the second leading cause of death after traffic accidents.
Interesting is the Michael Moore film, Bowling for Columbine where the director retraces the problem of deaths caused by guns and rifles in America, starting from a high school massacre, the Columbine high school where two students killed 13 students and a teacher and wounded 24.
According to Michal Moore is not the possession of weapons as the fear of crime in the U.S. resulted from media reports and by 'political use of social differences.
To me it does not possess weapons certainly reduce deaths in the U.S. where the situation is that described in the previous statistics.
Here is a quick sarcastic cartoon in the documentary "A Brief History of the USA":
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