Should assault weapons banned in the U.S or not. Assault weapons should not be banned because of self-defense and protection of robberies. Also for drug dealers across the border because immigrants smuggle. AWB was applied in 2004 because of the use of Assault weapons. On this information that is provided Assault Weapons should not be banned. The AWB had an effect on all the crime that was happening because the ban took the use of weapons. The main thing that differentiated the banned weapons was their appearance. As many predicted, a legislatively mandated post-AWB study found that the ban had no discernible effect on crime rates.The AWB also had effect with school shooters because they can’t have use firearms …show more content…
The main thing that differentiated the banned weapons was their appearance. As many predicted, a legislatively mandated post-AWB study found that the ban had no discernible effect on crime rates. Having a gun is a sacrifice of the constitutional rights of Americans for the problems of another nation. There was a school shooting in Colombian High School where assault weapons were fired until the school was literally littered with bodies—a dozen students and a teacher murdered, more than two dozen others injured. My personal appeal is that assault weapons should not be banned,for self defense and our 12th amendment because if you get robbed with no one with you then you should have the right pull out your gun and kill the person for self defense. People are always going to have some people who are prone to grievance killing. It is my belief the assault weapon, the military-style semiautomatic assault weapon, has become the weapon of choice for grievance killers. Some people disagree with others saying that the government should ban Assault Weapons because they are too powerful and dangerous for kids under 21. The government …show more content…
Also, there wouldn’t be gang attacks and stuff like that like in africa where there’s kids that are seven holding machine guns (AK-47). Assault Weapons should not be banned from our 12th amendment. And this all comes to the question if Assault weapons should be banned or should not be banned from the U.S. .All the reasons why Assault weapons should be banned and why they shouldn’t be banned from the 12th amendment. By, Salvatore Ra Works Cited Alters, Sandra M. "Statement of Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Assault Weapons Ban." Gun Control: Restricting Rights or Protecting People?, 2009 ed., Gale, 2009. Information Plus Reference Series. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3020690312/OVIC?u=will11665&xid=eb5848dc. Accessed 10 Feb. 2017. Alters, Sandra M. "Statement of Senator Dianne Feinstein on the Assault Weapons Ban." Gun Control: Restricting Rights or Protecting People?, 2007 ed., Gale, 2007. Information Plus Reference Series. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3011750313/OVIC?u=will11665&xid=77e7f153. Accessed 10 Feb.
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Enforcing an assault weapons ban can reduce the all-too-familiar occurrences of mass shooting and massacres. When Adam Lanza shot 26 people in Sandy Hook Elementary School..police say he largely relied upon a Bushmaster AR-15 "assault-type weapon," a semiautomatic rifle that could rapidly fire multiple high-velocity rounds. He was also equipped with magazines that held 30 bullets each (Plumer). As a chart from Princeton's Sam Wang shows, the number of people killed in mass shootings did go down in the years the [1994 Assault Weapons Ban] was in effect...and the number of mass shootings per year has doubled since the ban expired (Plumer). This statistic clearly shows the effectiveness of the ban passed by Congress and signed by former president Bill Clinton as part of the V...
Assault weapon control is becoming an unavoidable topic in the United States. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation more than nine hundred people have died from mass shootings in the past seven years and an assault rifle was used in twelve of the forty-three mass shootings in the past four years. The U.S. Department of Defense has long defined assault rifles as fully automatic rifles used for military purposes. The National Firearm Act of 1934 prohibited fully automatic weapons in the United States. The 1994 Assault Weapon Ban prohibited semi and fully automatic weapons and any weapon with military style characteristics. California Senator, Dianne Feinstein, is leading the charge in the American government to pass a bill that will limit the capacity of ammunition in a magazine and ban assault weapons that are too dangerous for public use. It is time for the American government to act swiftly and acknowledge the dangers assault rifles pose.
There are a lot of people who believe that these weapons should be ban. They say that these weapons are too dangerous and that they shouldn’t be available to the public to buy. They are very dangerous, but to purchase these guns you must have a background check, a license to carry them, and you have to have a gun safety license also. The level of security you have to go through to purchase these weapons is insane, and so is the price of these weapons.
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If people want to defend themselves, why waste the money and time on having police? In this day and age why have weapons, why not cut out all firearms and just be one happy country, it’s that simple, but is it really that simple? Assault Weapons Must Be Banned in America.
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Violence has been connected with guns in today’s society. For this reason a lot of cases have ended up in courts to try to decide what the truth about the second amendment is. As the U.S. Constitution guarantees people the right to bear arms. Not only is this but there debates about this amendment, that look to strike down the law in effect. There have been laws banning the ownership of handguns, which has been an attempt to stop the violence in districts. Many are searching for the correct way to regulate dangerous or potentially dangerous weapons, by doing this they would make the ownership of them illegal (Hoxie 474). But is the...
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Over the past year, the United States has been plagued with controversy in regards to gun control legislation. On January 24, 2013, Senator Feinstein introduced the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. The Assault Weapons Ban was a bill written to stop the acts of sale, transfer, importation, and manufacturing of military styled weapons. The NRA-ILA website quotes an excerpt of Feinstein’s bill, which states, “Feinstein’s new bill are as follows: Reduces, from two to one, the number of permitted external features on various firearms. The 1994 ban permitted various firearms to be manufactured only if they were assembled with no more than one feature listed in the law. Feinstein’s new bill would prohibit the manufacture of the same firearms with even one of the features.” (NRA-ILA) Wayne Lapierre, Executive Vice President of the NRA, said in 2009, “There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between the guns you want to ban and you don’t want to ban. You’re going to ban these semi-autos, and then it’s going to be handguns, and then it’s going to be pump shotguns.” Lapierre’s statement supports the fact that the recent gun ban legislation across the United States will not solve the problem of increased violence.
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