Never mind the 2nd Amendment. Not many people may like what I say immediately following this sentence but it’s true and it’s not deniable. The problem the US has now more than ever is the same problem that the UK has and that is….dum dum DUUUUM, immigrants (not that immigrants are er…“dum” – the “b” deliberately missing). Not just those that hop over the border to work at Walmart or Home Depot (if you’ll pardon the possibly racist but definitely stereotypical look at it) but those that wear turbans, read the Q’uran, blah blah…that’s not all of them obviously, but these people come into a country that had laws – rules and regulations for want of another way of putting it – that were clearly drawn up for the people that started life there, not the people that lived in Bahrain, or Saudi Arabia, or any other country for that matter for the best part of their young adult lives just to decide “Oh let’s totter off to the States and have a blast”.
Crashsequence2012 may consider the Constitution to be clear as a bell, but when you chuck in all manner of modern social values and norms and cultural differences/religious beliefs, and goodness knows what else from this day and age, there are doubtless aspects of the Constitution that become something of a debatable issue.
In order to think that it is clearcut then a black and white way of looking at things is required. It either makes sense, or it does not. Whereas the law is all about logic and facts and “This is the way it must be not the way it should be” and often fails to take into account various aspects of human existence, it is that same human existence that causes some people to find issue with the Constitution. To that extent it is a “malleable document”.