(First of the two-part series)

IN 1791, when the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified allowing “a well-regulated militia for the security of a free state, and giving the right of the people to keep and bear arms,” nobody expected that three centuries later, America will face major problems like firearms-related death and injury among children and adolescents, increased youth gun-carrying, and weaning of the psychological effects of exposure to gun violence, among others.

In anticipation of the upcoming elections,young leaders of the Centrist Democratic Youth Association of the Philippines (CDYAP) Compostela Valley chapters in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Stifftung Philippines (KAS) and CDPI conducted its simultaneous Voter's Education and Basic Orienation Seminar for the young voters in the municipalities of Monkayo and Compostela in Compostela Valley Province from April 30 to May 1, 2016.