Through out the history of the United States, most, if not all households owned a gun. Used for protection, hunting, hobbies etc. In the second amendment it guaranteed the right to bear arms. The amendment states, “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”. The liberals are trying to amend the constitution in whatever way. Either stop the sales of firearms or restrict the sales so much that minimal amount of people can buy them. Most studies show that controlling firearms have not stop people from committing crimes. While the government was being developed, citizens feared that a army ran by a strong central government would leave …show more content…
Medicare has paid out over fourteen-billion dollars in a year for injuries with firearms. Sixty percent of murder victims have been killed by firearms, and another seventy-thousand are injured per year (Lindermann 1). A study conducted by University of Wisconsin shows that gun control laws have had no individual or collective effect in reducing crime rates. Congressman Bill Goodling says that the criminal is the cause of crimes, not the gun (Gottlieb 18). If a firearm ban was issued then the citizens would have to follow with that …show more content…
Gun laws don’t address the issue so they tend to fail. The problem is the misuse not possesion of guns. Criminals won’t obey the gun laws if they don’t even comply to other laws already established. The only people ever affected by gun laws are peaceful, law-abiding citizens, who never abuse their firearm rights (Wright 12). In general, gun control advocates appear to be reflecting the mood of the American public (Bijlefeld 2). Congressman Jack R. Kingston of Georgia wants these people to take a careful look at Jamaica in 1974. In 1974, Jamaica enacted very strict gun control laws, which include house-to-house searches randomly, mandatory life sentences for possession of a single bullet, very strict gun control laws. Within six months violent crime dropped significantly. After a year, it went back up to the level it was before the gun control laws, and it has been increasing ever since (Bijlefeld
Gun admirers have statistics that will prove their side on guns saving lives. According to one study by Lott “… for each additional year that laws allowing people to carry concealed handguns were on the books, robberies decli...
“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.” The right of all Americans to bear arms is a right the Founding Fathers held to equal importance as the Constitution itself. Gun control laws directly violate this right and therefore should not even be under consideration. Even if that issue is overlooked, gun control advocates state that in order to reduce firearm related violence, gun control laws must be implemented to remove the violence caused by firearms. Although this may seem reasonable, the consequences of such laws are ironically counterproductive; they exacerbate the problem instead of fixing it. Besides the fact that the American Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to bear arms, the idea of restricting gun ownership in order to reduce firearm-related violence would ultimately fail given the previous experiments of gun control in England and in numerous states.
Since the birth of United States of America, guns have been sewn into the fabric of American culture. Guns were used for many meaningful things in those primitive times. Guns were used to protect one’s property from wild animals such as bears. Guns were used to hunt down protein-rich animals to feed families. Guns were used to defend American’s newly constituted freedoms from savage criminals, Native Americans, and European forces. Guns fit well into the fabric of American culture has stood the test of time. Today, however, the fabric that once brought the United States prosperity is now fraying and flawed due to the excessive use of guns. This addiction has shown to be a problem in several areas of American society, and statistics prove America
The US is among the various countries that are having problems with enacting laws that control guns. However, what the world fails to understand is that controlling guns does not end crime. Controlling crimes is the only sure manner and way of maintaining peace and order in various states across the US and the whole world. The various administrations have been trying to address the issue of mass shootings and illegal owning of firearms to no success. Controlling guns cannot thus end crime. The solution lies with putting an end to the crime itself first before checking on guns.
Gun violence in America is a public health crisis, which needs to be recognized and changed by legislatures, and the voting American. As conscious Americans, we need to vote for changes to gun laws that would improve background checks nation-wide, make firearm registration mandatory, restrict the sale of assault weapons and weapon modifications that give the shooter military-grade fire power, and invest in gun-safe technology and safe firearms storage designs. This type of technology will help prevent criminally oriented people from accessing guns, and will help prevent the accidental deaths of many children by guns. This essay will explain the reforms needed to help ensure Americans can still exercise their 2nd amendment right of owning firearms, and preventing the unnecessary deaths of many Americans at the same time.
The debate over gun control in America has constantly brought up over the years due to gunmen killing large amounts of civilizations in shootings. From Columbine to Sandy Hook or the shootings of the two reporters in West Virginia, these public shootings are occurring everywhere. Lawmakers and civilians alike are pushing for increased gun control in hopes of preventing the same tragedies. Anybody that has been affected by the shootings have been pushing Congress and state governments to force new sanctions on government. With the past three years, Congress has shot down all the laws despite the large amounts of public support. Adding more gun control isn’t going to stop the mass shootings from happening.
The right to bear arms is guaranteed in the constitution by the Second Amendment. Liberals are looking to amend the constitution any way they can. They want to ban handguns or at least restrict sales. Studies have shown that gun control cannot stop people from committing the crime.
Lott R.John, Editorial, “Less Crime: Understand Crime and Gun Control Laws”, Cnn News, 26 Nov, 2013; He claims that gun control laws do not deter crime: gun ownership deters crime. R.Lott’s explanation is that states with the largest increases in gun ownership also have in the largest drop in violent crime. The author purpose is that criminals don't obey the laws, in order to prevent from getting more crime violence. This article was entered to the people with
Gun control would place harsher restrictions on obtaining firearms, and in some cases, complete bans on some types of firearms. However, gun control and weapons bans rarely accomplish their goals and have a minimal effect on crime. Many gun control activists associate greater control with less crime. However, they overlook the root causes of firearm-related crime and already declining crime rates. Some misattribute such decreases to gun control laws already in place, neglecting to make connections between what the law does, and what crimes decreased. Firearms play an important role in defense of life and property not only for citizens, but for law enforcement individuals as well. Though some state that higher gun control would protect citizens, there is no correlation between state murder rates and gun control laws. Rather, there is a direct correlation regard murder rates and poverty. Many also neglect to state that the United State has very few gun laws compared to many European countries and that these countries have much higher crime rates. In addition, many forget to mention the already sharply declining crime rates of the United States, including declining homicide rates and firearm-related crimes. Those who do mention such decrease mistakenly
The gun policy in the United States is the right to keep and bear arms that protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. It can be also use as hunting, sport shooting or personal protection, and mostly for right to bear arms. However, the results of gun-related violence in school have shaken the nation, and the debates over gun policy has been controversial issues. On the afternoon of February 14, 2018, the 17 of the students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, were killed last week. It could kill 17 people in just six minutes by wielding a semiautomatic weapon, an AR-15 rifle. It was traveled on Tuesday to Tallahassee, the state capital, to call for an assault weapons ban. The direct appeal
The topic of gun control is a hot button issue in the United States. From accidental shootings to mass murders, the debate on gun regulations will likely never end. I personally feel like we should have tighter regulations on guns and who can handle them but not take them away completely from the civilian population. After the debate, I feel that I do not share the same opinion as those on either side because I think that I am in the middle. I do not think that we should take guns away from those who feel they need it for protection; we should not ban guns overall. Yet, I think we need to keep the guns out of the hands of those who would use them in a criminal way. In my opinion, I think that there should be a compromise and a way to meet in the middle for the safety and well-being of those who live in the United States.
What is Gun Control? Gun Control or Regulation is a broad term that covers any sort of restriction on what kinds of firearms can be sold and bought, who can possess or sell them, where and how they can be stored or carried, what duties a seller has to vet a buyer, and what obligations both the buyer and the As of today eight states have passed laws voiding federal firearms regulations. But there are still states that have not passed these laws and that includes California. The federal government should not regulate guns because it creates more crime, affects the state, and that is up to the state. Gun control creates more crime, how ironic.
(Gettings, McNiff) Recently in 2013, President Obama has proposed additional acts to supplement them. An infoplease timeline states that, “His plan includes universal background checks for gun sales, the reinstatement and strengthening of the assault weapons ban, limiting ammunition magazines to a 10-round capacity, and other measures. ”(Gettings, McNiff) The government has tried incredibly hard to control these homicides and get a grip on who is getting guns and what guns they are allowed to buy. Knowing about the gun control that is currently in effect and what it regulates assisted me in determining how well it affected the number of
Guns are a huge part of society in today’s world. Gun control is a central argument which many people have different views and opinions on in the United States of America. Government officials have many disagreements on this topic which results in the public not having a definite regulation on guns other than what has already been in place. From past to recent events such as the Sandy Hook shooting in one of Connecticut's elementary schools, the deadly Paris terror attacks, and the frequent shootings occurring all over the nation, these incidents have led many people to believe that gun control is needed in this country. On the contrary, others hold to the Second Amendment of the Constitution; it clearly states “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”
In the 20s and 30s, many states banned citizens to convey weapons without a license leaving the decision to the proper authorities because not everyone is allowed to carry one. In result, people started carrying hidden guns which has a direct effect on the increase of violent- crime rate. If weapons were not so easy to get then homicide and suicide rate will decrease!