According to information maintained by the Library of Congress, in June 2008, the Supreme Court, for the first time since 1939, issued a decision interpreting the Second Amendment. Gun control in the US is rooted in the Second Amendment of the country’s Constitution. Even so, while gun ownership is a right throughout the country, laws within different states vary about who can buy a gun. In the US, the right to buy a gun is written in the country’s Constitution and only a few people, such as those with criminal history or mental illness, may find it difficult to own a gun. “…if a Connecticut jury holds Remington responsible for prioritizing its profits over our safety, it lessens the risk that your first grader will die in school or in a movie theater or in a church or anywhere else,” she added. More specifically, it designed its advertising campaigns to target violence-prone, military-obsessed young men, the exact profile of many mass shooters.” In an article for the Hartford Courant, Francine Wheeler, mother of one the Sandy Hook victims wrote, “Remington made a decision to market to the general public a product intended only as a military weapon, a deception designed to boost the company’s bottom line.
