Gun Control in America

Guns Control

Living a life in America, we all get to have all the rights that included in the Constitution. One of those was the Second Amendment which is the rights to bear arm, the purpose was to protect ourselves from danger but nowadays a lot of people have take advantage of it and use it in the wrong way. I believe our government need to have a strict limit on guns possession.

Gun control had been a phenomenal issue in our country. In December 15, 1791 the second amendment established in the top ten amendments in the Constitution by James Madison. The amendment stated that people have a rights to bear arm to protect themself, their loved ones and their property. To legally get a gun you have to be 21 years old and over, without any criminal history nor committed in any mental institution then you need to apply for it and got a handgun safety test. After the whole process you can purchase a firearm easily. The whole purpose of the amendment was for self-defense but now people been taking advantage of it and use it for violence. Throughout the years there was so many times people use it to killed and harmed other instead of protecting. They used firearm for the wrong purpose and it affected a lot of other people. I believe our government need to have strict laws and more requirements to be able to own a firearm. It’s true that our current laws prevent certain people from getting a firearm but it did not complete stopping them from having an access to a firearm and use it to do something awful. In 2011, due to record US have 12,664 murders and 8,583 were caused by firearms which mean 68% out of 100. Firearm is one of the most quickest and dangerous weapons out there. If our government do not taking action soon there will ...

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...s... and also help “law enforcement from having their guns used against them” (www.theverge.com) But opponents adds that even with this invention it still would not make any different on the the percentage of guns violent in United States.

Gun control is a serious debate that need to put an end to. It’s too obviously that those firearm and amendment are not what they were support to anymore. There are way too many incidents that happen already not just a few. If this massacre of 20 innocent childrens would not change the terms of the debate over firearms regulation then I do not know what will. Are we waiting for something even more horrible than this to happen to then take action? This is not about protecting an individual anymore, this is about everyone in this country and everyone that around us.