First off laws can never end evil, they punish the evil-doer, and assist in defining right and wrong. Stricter laws may prevent a morally good person from doing evil, but that’s not the same for a truly evil person. Laws can only help so much because if the goal of a person is to do damage that individual will not pay attention to laws. Even with laws we will always have people break them, but the laws help restrain them. You also have to look at how many mass shootings have been stopped due to a courageous citizen that carried a gun. Or how many people have been saved because they had a gun to defend themselves in a time of crisis. With that information you have to think who has a valid point on why the 2nd Amendment …show more content…
But this Amendment gives the U.S. citizens all kinds of powers that other countries don’t have. One of these powers is the ability to overthrow the government if the citizens deem it is becoming too powerful. Another power is the ability to take arms and defend the nation in a time of crisis or invasion of another country. This ability alone makes the U.S. as a nation and its citizens a force to be reckoned with. The main power the citizens have is being able to use guns to defend themselves on the daily basis. The average law-abiding citizen can go spend their well-earned money to buy a gun, and time the time out of their day to take a concealed carry class get a permit and use that weapon to protect them anywhere they plan to go. If you wanted to make it where no one can buy a gun anymore that would have no effect on society until many years later down the road. This is because there are already so many guns in today’s society that eighty eight percent of people in the U.S. own guns. If you made it to where people could no longer buy a gun, it would take multiple generations until this even
punishment is an asset to society: it is the only punishment that fits the crime, it deters potential criminals
the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms,
As McMahan points out, “When more citizens get guns, further problems arise: people who would have once got in a fistfight instead shoot the person who provoked them; people are shot by mistake or accident.” (McMahan, 1) One of McMahan’s premises wraps around the analogy of comparing private gun possession to the nuclear arms race. Throughout this article, McMahan shows that either everyone will have guns (criminals and private citizens), or nobody will have guns. He demonstrates that when guns are found in every household, gun control can do little to restrict access to guns from potential criminals.
The debate over firearms has been polarized for too long. Gun law is a never-ending issue because there hardly is any true debate. Americans (and even gun owners) do support the governments efforts to make sure guns are less dangerous in violent hands, but that is the main problem-the guns getting in the wrong human hands. Millions of law-abiding Americans do own and do enjoy their guns. But criminals and sometimes-disconcerted kids often use firearms to kill. The use of firearms has increased tremendously. An average day in Los Angeles is four people dying in a gun related crime and the United States faces approximately 87 deaths a day. There are more than 200 million guns in circulation in the United States and if you don’t own a firearm, chances are that your neighbor or friend does (Fineman 27). Sure, the Founding Fathers incorporated the Second Amendment as “the right to keep and bear arms,” but it did not give the distinction of using guns to kill more children and people than anywhere in the world.
Although the Second Amendment prevents the federal government from completely banning guns in America, limited restrictions are allowed on the distribution and possession of firearms. Certain groups of people such as criminals, the mentally unstable, and soldiers dishonorably discharged from the military are prohibited from possessing or interacting with firearms (Flynn). These restrictions are enforced by background checks in some states on both a state and federal level. However, gun laws vary from state to state and are often not thorough enough; the background checks are flawed due to lack of information and misinformation, and guns can easily end up in the hands of criminals and malevolent individuals. The ease of obtaining a firearm in America fosters crime and a dangerous environment. Hence, the Second Amendment should be reinterpreted so that stricter gun laws can be implemented because modern citizens do not require guns, current background checks are flawed, gun...
In every society around the world, the law is affecting everyone since it shapes the behavior and sense of right and wrong for every citizen in society. Laws are meant to control a society’s behavior by outlining the accepted forms of conduct. The law is designed as a neutral aspect existent to solve society’s problems, a system specially designed to provide people with peace and order. The legal system runs more efficiently when people understand the laws they are intended to follow along with their legal rights and responsibilities.
support, the power to destroy, and most importantly the power to inform. The legislative branch
They enables us the power to change and add to it as required. This was wise of our founders; they had the foresight to know that times, people, and knowledge all change. Time brings on new relationships within and outside the U.S. For instance, in the original Constitution, is is explained how the number of representatives of Congress is found by population, “excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths all other Persons” (“all other Persons” referring to slaves). The population count was of all white people, and Native Americans that were not taxed. That has drastically changed, since relationships with those groups have changed. This has been amended properly in the Thirteenth Amendment, as ideas about the equality of all men have surfaced since then. People change as well; beliefs come and go, morals and standards change, and cultures emerger and re-emerge. Again, in the days of the Constitution, black people were slaves and of little consequence, but eventually civil rights were recognized, and African Americans, as well as women, the Fourteenth Amendment,, can now vote. Changes in knowledge came along with the new times and people. In turn, technology has advanced, and if the need to make an amendment related to this should arise, we have the ability to do so (U.S. Const.
In the same year the UK flooded the country with over 20,000 cops so the homicide rates would decrease. John R. Lott, Jr., PhD, gun rights activist, once said that "The problem with such [gun control] laws is that they take away guns from law-abiding citizens, while would-be criminals ignore them”.
To conclude, it is morally permissible to break the laws when it is morally right to do so, the law is unjust or out-dated. It is true that laws reflect what the society thinks, but this rule of majority could repress and tyrannize the interests of the minorities, such as AIDS patients. Thus, it is morally permissible to break the law under certain conditions.
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
As you can see if guns were eliminated from our society we would be at a serious loss. Our freedoms would be in jeopardy, our individual safety would be questionable and a significant industry in our country would be at a deficit. The quote that "Guns don't kill people, people kill people" is even more pertinent today. .
places them in a position of authority and influence over a citizen’s life, freedom, and property
Guns have been a major problem for years upon years in the United States. Many people have concerned about gun control and they are protesting strongly against “bearing arms”. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths between 1999 and 2013, representing 1.3% of total deaths. They were also the #1 method of death by homicide (66.6% of all homicides) and by suicide (52.2% of all suicides)” (qtd. in "Gun Control"). A gun is a big factor that threatens human life. People use it to commit suicide or commit crime, and in those situations it can cause death and serious injuries. The FBI says, “Firearms are used in roughly 7 in 10 killings” between 2013 and 2014 (qtd. In Simon and Sanchez). Considering the amount of gun death that involve in dire situations are more than in the cases that protect or help civilians.
Laws serve several purposes in the criminal justice system. The main purpose of criminal law is to protect, serve, and limit human actions and to help guide human conduct. Also, laws provide penalties and punishment against those who are guilty of committing crimes against property or persons. In the modern world, there are three choices in dealing with criminals’ namely criminal punishment, private action and executive control. Although both private action and executive control are advantageous in terms of costs and speed, they present big dangers that discourage their use unless in exceptional situations. The second purpose of criminal law is to punish the offender. Punishing the offender is the most important purpose of criminal law since by doing so; it discourages him from committing crime again while making him or her pay for their crimes. Retribution does not mean inflicting physical punishment by incarceration only, but it also may include things like rehabilitation and financial retribution among other things. The last purpose of criminal law is to protect the community from criminals. Criminal law acts as the means through which the society protects itself from those who are harmful or dangerous to it. This is achieved through sentences meant to act as a way of deterring the offender from repeating the same crime in the future.