1 leg armature is controling both legs I am having a problem where the left legs armature is controlling the deformation of both legs at the same time. I thought this was originally a mirroring issue but the arms work perfectly fine. The right legs armature does nothing. I told the program to armature deform with automatic weights. I am a beginner to blender so if you could use screen shots with your answer that would be great. 

thanks in advance
It's because your mesh is mirrored.  You will have to apply the mirror modifier, and you will probably have to redo your weights.

Hope this helps.