On the back of the mass shooting in Las Vegas, the LA Times decided that because the Second Amendment is 145 characters in length, and that's almost like a tweet, that it would be a good idea to ask for readers to 'rewrite' it.

"It's about the length of a tweet and has been interpreted to give us the right to bear arms. To own and carry a gun. To defend ourselves." the Times wrote.

"But it was written more than 200 years ago. Are the words still relevant in 2017? How would you change the language in your revision? What details would you add to your interpretation?" the piece added, before providing a form for readers to literally rewrite the Second Amendment.

Meanwhile, the Washington Post offered a 'fix' to the second amendment, that it had prepared earlier:

the internet responded accordingly:

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