Red Lake, Minnesota -- close to my home town. Once ran out of gas there on my motorcycle, and a Native American family came to shore on their fishing boat and gave me a couple gallons to keep going. Will never forget that act of kindness.

Anyway, a shooter went to the high school and killed people, wounding others, then shot himself. Columbine revisited.

He took out his grandparents. Can't help but think that they might have been in that boat so many years ago.

I'm up to here with our lackadaisical approach to firearm ownership. On top of this morning's news, the Colorado mother who lost her children to her estranged husband shooting them will be bringing the case to the SC. This has to do with police responsibilities when enforcing restraining orders. And last week it was brought out that 50 people on the FBI terrorist watch list have legally bought firearms. The Daily Show featured an NRA guy brushing this aside.

I am sorry, but the Second Amendment needs to be rewritten to reflect today's realities. We are no longer in the 18th century. Firearms are more efficient today than back then, and much easier to get. It is highly unlikely that the population will ever be able to force government change via private firearm ownership, and I don't think this is a good way to change governments anyway. Well, that's me. Here's the question:

Given the realities of today, should the US rewrite the Second Amendment to make private firearm ownership a privilege (similar to obtaining and keeping a driver license) rather than a right?

2nd Amendment; Individual Right?