Consequences of Stricter Gun Control

Pro-gun control advocates are flawed in the reasoning for stricter gun laws because stricter gun control infringes on the constitutional rights of law abiding owners and doesn’t affect the criminals that are the ones that commit crimes and are not obeying laws. If the crimes are being committed by ones that already do not obey the laws that are in force now then what good does stricter gun control do? There has been other countries that have put in place very strict gun laws and has seen violent crimes go up. There also has been countries like Iceland that have very lax laws on guns and this year 2013 they have seen their first police shooting.

Let’s first look at the bill of right that our founding fathers put together after freeing themselves form what they saw as oppressive government. The constitutional rights of US citizens has been debated on the meaning of what is written and what the word mean to each of us. When understanding the second amendment of the constitution we need to understand the times they lived in and meaning of words used in the amendment.

Let’s brake down the second amendment. A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Today United States code says that all able-body ages seventeen to forty-five, not a felon or mentally ill is a member of an inactive militia. “Being necessary to security of a free state.” This is a big part of limiting the federal government or oppressive government because of overreaching of the federal government. Remember they just freed themselves form an oppressive government they wanted to prevent it from happening again. That is why it was stated “free state” not federal g...

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... home and one person or a group of people have broken into the home, have they not have an inherent right to protect and defend oneself? Is it going to be effective if they get a bat to do this against someone that is intent on doing harm and maybe physical stronger than they are? These are just some of the reasons why gun control it not the right solution. When taking this information into account stricter gun laws not only infringe ones constitutional right but it will not hurt the criminals that already do not obey laws. Gun control puts too much negatives into play by restricting rights of law abiding citizens.

Works Cited

Wheeler III, S. C. (2001). Gun Violence and Fundamental Rights. Criminal Justice Ethics, 20(1), 19.

Moorhouse, J. C., & Wanner, B. (2006). DOES GUN CONTROL REDUCE CRIME OR DOES CRIME INCREASE GUN CONTROL?. CATO Journal, 26(1), 103-124.