>>The other reasons have been covered too numerous times to list them - I'll just refer to the 2nd and 14th amendments - regardless of how so many get it wrong here.
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>This does not make sense to me either. Documents that have written about two hundred years ago were based upon the society of those days. The founding fathers, when writing the rights to carry a gun, did not have automatic assault rifles with large magazines in mind to be carried by normal citizens. Society has changed, and needs to change. For the same reason, we don't live by the written lines of the bible (I know some do), as their rules were written in the context of a total different society than today.
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>The problem is really in your society where gun ownership is so embedded in your culture, that it is impossible to start a pragmatic discussion. Special interest groups (NRA) are having a huge and unhealthy influence on politics. The two party system in your country is paralyzing the politics to be able to do something about it. Having tighter gun control was part of obama's 2008 election campaign, but he could not force this through because of too much political resistance.
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The point of amendments written to the problems of that time has merit.
OTOH the US is one of the more long lived systems and
NOT changing to every decades new trend might play a role in that.

Compare to the way the EU changes treaties with no bailout clauses
sometimes every quarter and listens to the accepted political/monetary caste -
not sure if the US way in the long run is better for those living in it.

regards

thomas