Why do American Presidents get assassinated. It doesnt often happen elswhere. If I was Pres 2nd amend would go

Answer 1

So, let me get this straight. If you were an American president, you would want to ban the private ownership of guns to protect yourself against your fellow Americans. I assume, of course, that your bodyguards would be allowed to open weapons and that you'd have access to one of the largest arsenals in history, but you wouldn't let any private citizens have the means to defend themselves because you're scared that a few crazy people out of three hundred million might attack you. Yeah, that's great reasoning.

Answer 2

It's happened 4 times in over 200 years and 3 of those were clustered in a 35 year period. It happens elsewhere. Look at India. Indira Gandhi and her son were both assassinated. Sadat was killed 25 years ago and more recently the president of the Congo. It happens a lot around the world but has only happened once in the US in the past 105 years. Obviously I'm not including non presidential / leadership assassinations such as the Martin Luther King or the mayor of Nagasaki.
As far as you getting rid of the second amendment if you were president that's nothing you would have the power to do. The president takes no part in amending the constitution. That's up to the congress and the states.

Answer 3

Only four American Presidents have been assassinated. It happens elsewhere, too. Just this week the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, was shot to death. The Prime Minister of Sweden was assassinated in 1986, and the Swedish Foreign Minister was murdered in 2003. There have been more political assassinations in South America and the Middle East than I can count.

Answer 4

It happens all too often in many countries. Presidents or any leaders get assassinated because people want them dead. Not because of the availability of weapons. Wasn't Anwar Sadat shot to death by some Muslim extremists disguised as his own troops during a parade in 1981?

The more effective a leader is the more people want to assassinate him.

BTW the second amendment is not subject to the whim of any president. It is part of the Constitution in fact part of the original Bill of Rights written by the Founders themselves.

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Answer 5

If you were an American ,Luke,
you would know
the President of the United States does not have the power to change the Constitution
it is a huge and cumbersome political process that keeps
one person or group from ever becoming as all powerful as say
Hitler or Ayatollah Khomeini or Saddam Hussain

Answer 6

Because they won an election in a year ending in zero, if you do some research you will see there is a correlation that is more than a coincidence.
It would be great if all the guns would magically disappear if the 2nd amend. was repealed and guns were outlawed, but in real life a guy who is going to shoot someone is not gonna worry about breaking a gun law if he is planning to break the law against murder.

Answer 7

Et tu, Brute?

It does happen elsewhere, and it has not often happened in the US. BTW, the president has nothing to do with amending the US Constitution, so even if you were president of the US you couldn't do away with the 2nd Amendment.

Answer 8

I would suggest you get book on world history, your assumptions are incorrect. through out history, on every continent the over throw of power is clear and recorded. I assume you are not an American so I can only say that you don't understand why the second amendment is part of our Constitution. Seems many on the left have forgotten their history as well. let's be very clear guns don't kill people...people kill people. there are more deaths by automobiles every year than with guns used in crimes.

Answer 9

No you are wrong. We need a law that makes it a requirement for all citizens to own hand guns and to pass a certification showing that they know how to use them. All gun control laws should be abolished and people should be allowed to carry hand guns without any restriction. Machine guns and automatic weapons would be an exception.

The idea is that is every student had a gun in that first classroom that wack job walked into at Virginia Tech he would have been pumped full of bullets before he could get off another shot. Justice would have been served.

Answer 10

Leaders have been assainated in almost every country in the world. Check your facts. And without the 2nd amendment to defend them, the rest of the amendments would not exist.