2nd Amendment

Innocent people again battle for dear lives after a crazed shooting rampage reported in a downtown cleveland high school yesterday.Initial reports suggest a reason as trivial as a 14 year old's suspension from school.
No matter what side of the aisle you are on the debate on gun control and the 2nd amendment,one thing is crystal clear:this thing is now reaching epidemic proportions,and we need to stop playing the ostrich and face the real issues.
Every parent should be able to drop off their kids at school without having to worry constantly at work about their safety.These days,you never know which deranged minor has brought his dad's gun to school....and he may well be sitting next to your daughter!
As an "alien",i am neither qualified nor able to challenge the wisdom of the founding fathers in enacting the 2nd amendment.What i am dead sure about though,is that several of the assumptions and precautionary premises upon which this amendment was predicated are now irrelevant and obsolete.Even Britain whose experience during the elizabethan era inspired this amendment currently maintains a largely unharmed police force and exercises stringent gun control measures.Whether this has led to lower crime rates in the UK compared to the US or not is self evident and does not even lend itself to any sort of intellectual debate(no matter what the NRA tells you).....I have lived in both countries and should know what i am talking about.
Every time a sanctimonious ultraconservative babbles on the sanctity of the constitution and its enshrined amendments in relation to gun control,i like to refer them to the equally sacred provisions of the 9th amendment.