Gun Laws Research Paper

Dear chosen Congressman, I know that you will receive and hear many differing opinions, however after much research and debate I have chosen to present you with my opinion and research on gun laws in the United States. Gun laws in the United States should be fortified to fit modern gun use and models.

Guns in the United States can be bought like buying groceries. No identification, no questions, no nothing. This should not continue. We need to follow in the footsteps of another country. In this case, Japan. “Japan is a country of more than 127 million people, but it rarely sees more than 10 guns deaths a year.” (Chris Weller) This quote proves that Japan already as an almost ideal death count regarding guns and gun use in the country. Further

However, as a pro-gun law supporter, I’m here to tell you that I have researched the guns of the Revolutionary War era. When they made the Amendment, guns took longer to reload and didn’t have nearly the accuracy and power as modern guns do today. “The process of loading and reloading the gun involved adding gunpowder, using a ramrod to insert the bullet and make sure it was in place, and reattaching the ramrod before taking aim and firing the single bullet.” (Rachel Souerbry) Reloading a gun was a complicated process that took time when automatic and semi-automatic guns were still nonexistent. “A ‘Typical Revolutionary-era musket’ had a one-round magazine capacity, and it could fire around three effective rounds per minute - in the hands of the most skilled wielder.” (Rachel Souerbry) This proves that shootings unless in large numbers was non-existent, unless it was an act of war or government controlled (Boston Massacre). The most advanced arms during that era were muskets, who took longer to reload and were harder to hit people due to the awful accuracy. When they wrote the Second Amendment they couldn’t have expected that automatic and semi-automatic guns would pop up and create problems with their Amendment. This argument against harsher gun laws is invalid. If you keep guns, but just make them harder to obtain, you ensure the safety of more people and follow the Second