In 1990, handguns were used to murder twenty-two people in Great Britain, sixty-eight in Canada, eighty-seven in Japan and 11, 719 in the United States. ... The reason why is because in Germany, France, Canada, Britain and Japan, handguns are essentially banned from the general public. ... The Second Amendment is outdated and should be revised to suit today's modern world, which sadly, reflects a much more violent American society than in the eighteenth century, when the Constitution was first signed by the Founding Fathers. ...

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