Yet another fatal shooting has occurred – this time even a “tip-off” to the FBI, offered no help. Seventeen people died in the incident.

I guess that in the next few days, there will be more debates on the Second Amendment, the right to bear arms, the need to regulate and control guns, and the effectiveness of agencies to monitor and prevent unwarranted shootings and killings.

I also guess after a few weeks or so, everything will be forgotten yet again.

Welcome to the real America, once a great nation but now degenerating into a land of entropy.

This is the country that claims making pornography is part of freedom of expression, but does not mind that 30 people on average are killed every day by gunfire.

What is so “right” about the right to bear arms really? Is it the constitutional right they are claiming? Or is this merely to profit from gun manufacturing and trading?

The Second Amendment, passed more than two centuries ago, was to give citizens the right to bear arms to fight back the government in the event it became tyrannical. The relevance of this right today is a big question mark, at least in the US.

How do citizens fight back against the government with arms if the government has become tyrannical? Some have interpreted the Second Amendment as the right to organise armed militia to fight a tyrannical government.

But what is happening on the ground today has no resemblance to the original intent of the constitution.

The right to bear arms by individuals today is at most only the right to protect themselves.

The big issue is really the gun lobbyists. They love guns and they love to acquire them readily and easily. In the process of course, many have fallen into the hands of criminals, psychopaths and general sickos.

They can’t have the cake and eat it too. This is a typical case of individual rights overriding and trampling on societal rights. It is the choice they make.

TK Chua is an FMT reader.

The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of FMT.