Amendment II

"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

This amendment represents the right for citizens in the United States to protect themselves through the use of fire arms and/or other legally obtained weapons. This amendment was written at a point in time where the act of loading and firing guns took far longer than it does today and that has become a very controversial topic in today's politics. 

 This image really reflects how this Amendment is being treated in the current socio-political atmosphere. The cartoon reflects the current desire to introduce harsher gun control policy to prevent the increasing mass shootings in the United States from continuing. The GOP are stubbornly resisting these efforts, claiming that the Second Amendment guarantees these rights forever, and this image has been used to appeal to their followers.

This image illustrates the difference in guns and weapons at the time that the Second Amendment was written compared to the weapons that exist now as well as showing what the weapons have been primarily used for outside of war.