Why Gun Control is Needed The year was 1787, and Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and George Washington were signing their names to a document that stated, "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." What were they thinking? Did they have any clue as to what types of dangerous weapons we would have available today? Their guns could fire a maximum of five rounds per minute and that was a talent even for a professional loader. We now have kids on the streets, in our schools, and in our homes with guns that can fire 180 rounds per minute. But, let's retrace our steps and Consider the times in which our framers lived. They were under constant surveillance by England, the Indians were in an uproar; Canada was upset a....

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