In past years the 2nd amendment has caused a large amount of controversy. The 2nd amendment states that Americans have the right to keep and bear arms and that this right shall not be infringed. With the rising violence in today’s society, gun control advocates have begun trying to twist the meaning of the 2nd amendment into different interpretations in order to try to control guns. On the other side, gun rights advocates see this as an attack on freedom and defend their interpretation of the 2nd amendment fiercely. Most of the debate is centered around how the amendment is phrased.