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2nd Amendment Suicide Pact

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The late Italian author and journalist Arrianna Filacci once said the "nations aren't murdered, they commit suicide". It seems that our nation is on course to do just that. If it isn't the divisive race, class politics of the left, its the alarming frequency of mass murders by deranged lone gunmen. In July 20 year James Holmes walked into a movie theater heavily armed killing 12 and wounding 58. Just this week 22 year old Jacob Tyler Roberts shot 3 people in an Oregon mall, killing 2. However the today's carnage will surly go down as one of America's darkest days. A single gunman entered an elementary school in Newtown Connecticut and killed 26, 20 of them were children. Each and every one of these incidents rehashes the old political debates about gun control. As a conservative I have always has difficulty with the loose interpretation on the 2nd amendment. The Constitution states A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,