A gunshot is heard. Panic and screams reap through the silence. Minutes later, the place is swarmed by police, spectators, and last if not first, the media. As the story is told on the news, people are covered with yet another blanket of fear; gun ownership increases, and the problem escalates. When the last state ratified the second amendment in 1939, which states that any American has the right to own a firearm to protect himself, guns became the third most needed thing next to food and shelter. Many Americans possess loaded shotguns under their pillows, grenades in their closets, and handguns under their belts - and for what? To protect themselves from their neighbour who has a gun for the same reason.…
