2nd Amendment?

2nd Amendment?

In the united states of American the right of citizens to bear arm was authorized in the 2nd amendment of the U.S constitution.  This amendment gives law abiding citizens or group of citizens otherwise called regulated militia army the right to owns arms, among many reasons to defend and protect themselves and properties from a despotic government and from criminal outlaws that seek to do them harm or forcible deposed them of their properties in the presence of a weak, ineffective or aloof government.

Boko Haram and the spate of armed robbery, kidnapping, general insecurity and governments inability to protect lives and properties in Nigeria is now an existential threat to the nation and to the people hence Nigeria’s 2nd amendment or a modified form of it is not only a necessary safety measure but also moral imperative.

Yes, in every human action there is always going be a reaction but as intelligent people we must weigh the action and reaction and decide how to proceed. Arming the citizenry may sound crazy but what other alternative do we have.  The army and the police are not enough and would never  be enough to be everywhere. 

The thought that a man or neighbor in the next room, house, street or town only watched haplessly as his family, friends, wife, sons, daughters, mother, father, neighbors next are being hatched to death, shot, raped, beheaded, slight by the throat and all he could is watch, shout, call police, pray, beg, wish, and or cry helpless is worse than death itself. Only few people would survive such horrendous humiliation that is worse than death. It therefore means that this man, group, village, town must be allowed to defend and protect themselves from possible traumatizing event by stopping it from happening in the first place or die trying. Many would prefer to die than to helpless watched while the innocent is butchered for doing nothing but for just being a vulnerable law abiding citizen.

It is 2nd amendment until the governments can verifiable show that the threat of Boko Haram, Armed robbery and kidnapping has been eliminated or occurs reasonably seldom.