Read each speaker's point of view about the importance of the Second Amendment. Then answer the question that follows:
• Speaker 1: The Second Amendment was created to insure that the citizen militias that
protected the United States in the 1790s would have weapons to defend the nation in times of
war.
• Speaker 2: The Second Amendment states that the right of the people to own weapons can not
be taken way which means that it is unconstitutional for a government to prohibit legal gun
ownership
• Speaker 3: The national government now provides the military with the weapons that are used
to protect the nation. This means that the Second Amendment is no longer needed.
What speaker would most likely strongly oppose a Constitutional amendment to repeal the
Second Amendment?
Speaker 2
Speaker 1
Speaker 3