One issue that resonate across cultures is gun control. Recently, there has been a lot of school shootings happening and many students and staff members were injured or killed. Most of the school shooting was caused by a student from the school, which is surprising because how did the student get the guns? I believe that the minimum age to buy a gun should be raised to 20 and there should be tighter gun control laws. Tighter gun control laws would help create a more safer school environment, reduce the amount of violent crimes, and bring peace to society. A reason why tighter gun control laws would help create a more safer school environment because there would be less under age gun owners . In a 2011 article on gun control laws, Edmund F. McGarrell states that, “For gun control laws to be effective, they need to ease restrictions on legal possession and target illegal possession and use”(Laura K. Egendorf). In other words, he is saying that gun control laws need to focus more on people who illegally have guns instead of the people who legally have guns for it to be effective. This talks about how the current gun control laws are not doing what they are suppose to do and that it need to be stricter. It also talks about how gun control laws should be focusing on illegal possession or …show more content…
under age gun owners instead of trying to have less legal gun owners. One reason why tighter gun control laws would bring peace to society is because it would reduce gun violence.
In a 2007 article on gun control, researchers found out that, “States with strong gun control laws have a lower gun death-rate than states with laxer gun control laws”(Tami Roleff). States that does have tighter gun control laws seems to have a lower gun death-rate, which also means that it was more peaceful than those states with laxer gun control laws. This also reveals that having stricter gun control laws does help reducing the amount of gun violence and creating a more peaceful society. Therefore, having tighter gun control laws does have an effect on gun
violence. In order to reduce the amount of violence crimes, tighter gun control laws are needed. In an article on pros and cons about gun controls, John R. Lott, Jr., PhD, gun rights activist, stated, “The problem with such [gun control] laws is that they take away guns from law-abiding citizens, while would-be criminals ignore them”(Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?). In clarification, the current gun control laws are not preventing criminals from obtaining guns or breaking the laws, but instead, they get rid of guns from law-abiding citizens. This is also similar to what Edmund F. McGarrell said because gun controls laws are not focusing on illegal gun owners and try to prevent them from getting the guns. Some people might say that gun control laws is trying to reduce the amount of violence by reducing the amount of guns given to law-abiding citizens and that there is not much the governments can do about the criminals other than capturing them after they commit a crime. Overall, having stricter gun control laws means we would have a more safer school environment, less violence crimes, and we would have a more peaceful society. If we were to have stricter gun control laws, there would be a lower death-rate by guns by far. There would also be less school shooting happening because it would be harder for an under age to get a gun. Furthermore, if we were able have stricter gun control laws, I think the age limit should be raised to 20 because I think that at the age of 20, we are far more mature than the age of 18 and 19. Therefore, gun control laws need to stop focusing on legal gun owners and start focusing on how to prevent illegal gun owners from happening.
Left, right, Liberal, Conservative, Democratic, Republican. There are a lot of synonyms for the sides of our nation divided. Divided on many things: religion, political views, morals, etc.. For a nation that prides ourselves on extraordinary security and unity, it is quite ironic that so many issues can cause such distress and uproar within communities. One such issue is gun control. As a white male in a middle-lower class family that has never owned a gun, I may be somewhat biased. Objectively as I can, I am going to report the facts and more importantly, try to find the core issues at play.
In conclusion, enabling stricter gun control laws will help to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill, criminals, and children and teens. With these laws put into place there will be more assurance of the safety of American citizens. It is not necessary to strip citizens of their right to own a gun, but we should be able to make it harder to get guns. If you are someone with a clear record and using a gun for recreation use, you will have no trouble obtaining a gun. In the long run increase the laws on gun control hurts nobody. Despite historic events where governments seized firearms and killed millions of citizens, today we have a different problem, which is making sure guns are in the right hands.
Gun control laws aim to restrict or regulate firearms by selecting who can sell, buy and possess certain guns. Criminals do not obey laws and stricter gun control laws or banning guns will have little effect on reducing crimes. There are many myths about gun control reducing acts of gun violence, which are simply not true according to research. People are responsible for the crimes, not the guns themselves. Taking guns away from United States citizens that use them for many reasons, shooting practice, competition, hunting and self-defense, should not be punished for the acts of criminals. As stated by Mytheos Holt, “Guns in the right hands help public safety. Guns in the wrong hands harm public safety”. Research shows that defensive use of guns discourages criminals and reduces crime (Holt 2). Not only is it wrong to penalize law-abiding citizens, it is against the Second Amendment. It is unconstitutional to pass laws that infringe on the Second Amendment right to bear arms.
With all the shootings and random acts of violence, such as the shooting at the movie theatre in Colorado, or the Sandy Hook shootings, stricter gun control laws have been a hot topic in politics and the national mainstream media. The government thinks that gun control being stricter would help to make less of these tragic incidences occur. I am against this thought because I believe that the law-abiding citizens will be the only ones to give up their guns and criminals will then have an upper hand on the innocent. Even though banning guns is supposed to save lives, cities such as Chicago have already shown that stricter gun laws should not be passed because violent murders are still prevalent in these types of cities and strict gun laws have not worked like they were supposed to.
People have questioned gun control long time. Many people wonder if anyone, aside from those who join the law force, should be allowed to carry guns. Benjamin Franklin once said, “Those who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety” (Wright 4). Franklin understood that taking guns away from law-abiding citizens would not uphold their liberty. Some people who argue for gun control state many violent crimes involve guns. Others believe a child could find the gun and something bad could happen to the child or others when a gun is unsafely stored. People who argue against gun control might say there is a huge psychological gap between citizens who shoot to protect themselves or their property and those who go into schools and shoot at others. Criminals will always find a way around gun control laws and will be able to obtain and use guns illegally. The second amendment protects gun rights for individual citizens. Reasonable gun control laws and educational steps can be taken to protect the majority of U.S. citizens. Gun control does not only take guns away from criminals, gun control also limits law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves and their families when necessary.
The shootings that have happened in the schools throughout the Unites States over the past few months have created a great divide among Americans on what we should do as a nation to prevent further shootings from happening. Many people believe that imposing new laws on purchasing weapons by requiring background checks, holding adults responsible for the actions of their children and requiring gun locks on weapons to prevent children will stop these massacres in our school from happening. There are many issues that need to be looked at in order to decide which laws are necessary.
A good example of this is Chicago. Even with such strict gun laws, Chicago is at the top of the list with over 500 homicides involving guns in 2012. Since guns are being restricted to people, it is easier for guns to come into the city from other places instead. There are more guns in the streets of Chicago than in Los Angeles and New York. In 2012, the police confiscated 7,400 guns in crimes. This alone makes you think that maybe if guns are taken away then violence will increase. Well another point a gun activist made is that "guns are not the root of the crime problem” (D 'Agostino) and should not be seen as the real problem when it comes to all these deaths in the United States. Instead that the real problem is all the factors that lead up to the violence such as poverty, mental health, and failing
Gun violence has reached an all-time high. After the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, widespread concern forced legislators to take a second look at our gun laws. When twenty children and six educators were gunned down, many citizens were outraged and begged authorities to pass more stringent gun laws because with fewer guns, there could possibly be fewer incidents involving gun violence. Many people believe that the widespread availability of guns is making society unsafe. Each year, nearly 100,000 Americans are shot, 32,000 of them die, 47 children are shot every day, and eight of them die, according to the U.S. News Digital Weekly. In order to solve this problem, more stringent background checks should be required by all applicants, restriction and enforcement on the sale of guns at gun shows need to improve, and the availability of automatic weapons should be limited.
One who is for gun control would argue that due to the new types of weapons and technology that are being drowned in the twenty first century more laws are needed to better control it. Gun opponents would state that if certain laws that are already on the books are ineffective what effect would new enact law bring. . (Streissugth, Tom). Crime will always be apart of America that is why the individual need to be able self defend themselves. One major group that was against any type of gun control was the National Rifle Association; this group did not any laws that tried to prohibit gun rights to individuals. The NRA was founded in 1871 in New York and later moved to Washington D.C. the group served as an association for instructing and rewarding
Today in the United States there has much debate over the countries current standing on Gun Control. Some Americans lean more towards supporting the bans, simply due to what people have seen with the mentally ill in the media today, these are often the indviduals who support restrictions that have been made on the purchasing of firearms. Others highly oppose gun control, standing firm by the belief that any form of suppression towards firearm ownership, is a clear violation of anyone 's constitutional rights. "In 1990, the Violence Policy Center announced that the debate must be switched from small handguns to large “assault rifles.” This led to states like California starting bans themselves on, "assault weapon magazines holding more than
Gun control is an awfully big issue in the United States today. Many people in America don’t agree with the gun control laws that they have today. Gun control laws only take guns and freedom away from law-abiding citizens. Many citizens have their own reasons for owning a gun. Why would the government want to make it harder for people to own a gun? People that own guns aren’t very likely to be attacked by criminals. Owning a handgun is one of the best ways of protection when used correctly. The second amendment states “the right to bear arms”; does this grant everyone the right to own a gun? Gun control laws have not been proven to do anything for citizens. Gun control laws just make it harder for the good guy average Joe to own a gun. Gun control laws are not a good idea, and are taking part in the loss of our freedom that was given to us.
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.
Firstly, stricter laws will reduce violence, and gun control means crime control. There are some countries in the world that have introduced stricter laws and were successful to control the crimes ...
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