Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

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Gun control is an issue that has been debated over in the United States for years. It has recently become more of a hot issue, due to random gun violence sweeping the nation and thousands of guns on victims such as Trevon Martin, school children and movie goers end up wounded( physically and mentally) or dead. The growing concern of gun violence have persuaded many government officials and American citizens to support heavier gun control laws. However, many government officials and citizens still are unwilling to support stricter gun control. Which is solely due to the Second Amendment, which states, "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms." As a part of the US Constitution, it supports the individuals rights to own firearms and causes people to feel like there is no need to have stricter gun laws: however, I disagree with the Second Amendment to an extent. The government shouldn't be allowed to restrict the ownership of guns to the point it is hard to obtain a gun, nor should it let us have excessive amounts of freedom with guns. I truly feel there needs to be a middle ground in which people can be content with guns. The Supreme Court's ruled on firearms saying the U.S. Constitution guarantee the right to "bear arms", however some courts have been in disagreement in recent times and a fighting to redefine the ruling in order to get Gun ownership to be "strictly controlled." (Supreme Court, 1) The ruling "strictly controlled" means that the government can make revision the Second amendment as they see fit. Gary Kleck (a professor of criminology at Florida State University) argues that "gun control laws have not reduced crimes."(Egendorf, 1) If stricter gun laws were enacted in the United States, the crime rate would incre... ... middle of paper ... ...se two options which moderate gun control. Moderate gun control would make it to where people can purchase a limited amount of fire arms and would protect citizens that would be at risk from criminal violence. Moderate gun control is already practiced today. It is used as a way to keeping track of weapons purchases, and is for the purpose of knowing who owns a firearm that has committed crime. However moderate un control can be made better, mainly by limiting the amounts of guns and bullets a person can buy. It can also be made better by making army and swat grade firearm type unavailable to the general public. A better moderate gun control would give people the gun control they desire also with the option to use a firearm as protection. Moderate gun control would in turn please a vast majority of people's standings on the issue and end the debate over gun control.

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