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meaningful and prominent Amendment in the 19th century, the value of this Amendment in the modern era has been defined by the role that it currently plays in debates over
firearms regulations. At a time when the state militia is all but obsolete, and over 30,000 Americans are killed each year by guns, the question of the value of
this Amendment is clearly in debate (Carlson, 2002). Daniel Lazare, in his article entitled Your Constitution is Killing You, argued that there are a variety of rhetorical
arguments for the increasing violence in our society, including the murders at Thurston High School (Springfield, Oregon) and Columbine High School (Littleton, Colorado), but that no effective change can occur
until the blame is placed where it belongs: on the continued existence of the Second Amendment. Daniel Lazare, as well as theorists like Andrew Carlson in The Antiquated
Right : An Argument for the Repeal of the Second Amendment, support the repeal of the Second Amendment as a necessary measure towards the successful creation of gun reform.
Considering their arguments and the challenges to repeal efforts provides an interesting view of the problem of gun law reform and the attempts to prevent gun law reform by
organizations like the National Rifle Association. Where Does the Violence Come From? One of the first questions that Lazare addresses in his article is that misplaced belief by
many in the modern political limelight who claims that the violence that occurred at Thurston and Columbine High Schools and the increasing violence tendencies in young children is the result
of television viewing alone. While Lazare does not suggest that television viewing and other environmental factors cant impact behaviors, he suggests that there is a more fundamental element at
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