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I am currently working as a certified ESL teacher at a private school in Wuxi, China. I have also taught Primary School, Middle School, and High school in Suzhou, China. I am now currently a High school Teacher in Wuxi, in the Jiangsu province. I am also tutoring older students who are planning to travel to English-speaking countries. Some of my older students that I am tutoring are preparing to take their entrance exam for various Universities. I also volunteer for our school’s summer camp program. It is something I enjoy doing and at the same time the students learn a great deal about the western culture. I also worked at the SMIC summer camp in Shanghai in July of 2010 and 2011. During the last nine years I have been a volunteer teacher for the iCity charitable organization in Suzhou, China. I also have been doing a lot of volunteer work to promote our School.

Tuesday, June 14, 2022

The second amendment of the US Constitution ......... 🦅

 The second amendment of the US Constitution

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Why was the 2nd amendment written?

The Second Amendment, ratified in 1791, was proposed by James Madison to allow the creation of civilian forces that could counteract a tyrannical federal government.

Modern debates about the Second Amendment have focused on whether it protects a private right of individuals to keep and bear arms or a privilege that can be exercised only through militia organizations like the National Guard.

Many in the Founding generation believed that governments were prone to use soldiers to oppress the people. English history suggested that this risk could be controlled by permitting the government to raise armies (consisting of full-time paid troops) only when needed to fight foreign adversaries. For other purposes, such as responding to sudden invasions or other emergencies, the government could rely on a militia that consisted of ordinary civilians who supplied their own weapons and received some part-time, unpaid military training.

I don’t think the gun issue that is plaguing our modern society has ever crossed the minds of our country’s founders. I don’t think James Madison would have approved of non-militia members walking around with military-grade firearms due to either psychological insecurities or, worse being inflicted with some sort of mental illness.

Nothing in the US constitution prevents the US government from banning military-grade assault weapons from being owned by ordinary citizens. America, after all, is the only developed nation with the highest murder rate due to the legalization of firearms.     

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