What we are asking for is more background checks and more laws to make it harder for guns to end up in the wrong hands and the people that want to cause harm to others. One key item that studies have found that gun control laws affect the use of specific guns in violent crimes, but do not affect the crime rate itself. This is true to some extent, and what we want is mass shootings to end. This will not stop criminals and mentally ill people from buying guns on the streets. Yes, true but if we gun owners are responsible gun owner, and we do the right thing we can stop guns from reaching the streets.
No, there are laws and restrictions such as background checks, not letting a convicted felon purchase a firearm, making it so that if someone want to care their gun they have to go through the proper training, these are all good laws and restrictions regarding the ownership of a firearm. Banning high powered rifles, making it illegal to purchase magazines with more than ten rounds, restricting the places a trained gun owner can carry, are all infringements on the constitutional right to bear arms. There are over two-hundred gun laws in the United States, some of them are justified, but a majority of them should have never been passed because they are unconstitutional. It all comes down to two facts; gun control is not constitutional, the second amendment was put in place to protect the citizens against the government. In history the first thing a tyrannical government will do is disarm its
Control Gun There are many different opinion of what causes crime. Some people say crimes caused by guns and some say the cause is the people before the guns. In New York Time Magazine on 1994 an argument essay printed by the author James Q Wilson which is “ Just Take Away Their Gun’’. Wilson wrote the opinion of government and public in the first paragraph. He mention what is the president and public want from gun control laws even the public think all new government laws will not work to reduce the illegal used of gun.
Caleb Gibson Miss Jackson Composition 27 March 2015 Let Us Carry Firearms have been apart of our nations culture for more than one hundred years now. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that firearms cam be lethal and can pose a serious threat to the public at hand. That is why the United States has come up with various gun laws to stop harm coming to their public. Some of these laws give people the right to own guns such as "citizens of the United States have the right to bear arms" (US Constitution Second Amendment.) Some of these gun laws take away that right such as "convicted felons are banned from possessing firearms or ammunition."
Its true that a lot of criminal /violent activity involve guns, like robbery, assault, murder etc. and no one can deny that. That is why there is the gun control law. The main purpose of the gun control law is to control who are the people who can acquire guns, how much ammo they can use and to get rid off loopholes like the gun-show loophole, in the hope that the crime rate would go down and will help make things safer for everyone. (Goldberg, 2012) But will that ensure that crime rates really would go down?
It’s because most criminals cannot pass the background checks already required by law to purchase a firearm the legal way. Furthermore, when I look at the statistics proving or disproving that gun control has an impact on crime levels, it’s clear to me that the weapon used is not the enabler. The simple fact of the matter is that assault is a behavior not a
I would love to see the day that a person decides to go out to commit a heinous crime, but decides not to because his magazine held too many rounds. The only people being effected by the magazine bans are law abiding citizen. While these law abiding citizens are running around with these neutered magazines because we obey the law, while we have to continue with a guy who is carrying a gun with an illegal magazine. With these shortsighted laws the government is passing, all the criminal will have to do is take innocent lives, and either perish in the process, go to jail or go home, while us law abiding citizens have to go on about our daily lives, all the while carrying a legally obtained gun in the case we run into said criminal, yet you want to make guns harder to obtain, and magazines hold less ammunition, for the law abiding citizen but make it easier for criminals because all they will have to do is go to a shady part of town and buy an illegal gun and possibly an illegal magazine right off the street. No one will be able to convince me that by putting a ban on guns and magazines no criminals will be able to get their hands on a weapon.
The term "gun control" means any law, policy, practice, or proposal designed to define, restrict, or limit the possession, production or modification, importation, shipment, sale, and/or use of firearms. Gun control laws and policies vary greatly around the world. Some countries, such as the United Kingdom, have very strict limits on gun possession while some large federal republics like the United States, have laws that vary significantly between states. Proponents of gun control generally argue the dangers of widespread gun ownership. Opponents argue that gun control does not reduce gun-related injuries, murder, or suicide, and some argue that such regulation would violate individual liberties.
Why would a criminal follow gun control laws if he or she is already going to break the law to commit a crime? The gun control laws will be only hurting the law abiding citizens that enjoy using their gun rights for sport such as hunting. Gun control laws will be only taking away a form of protection that some people desperately need. Gun Control laws will only tear this country more apart and create more conflict between Democrats and Republicans. The United States Government needs to allow citizens to keep their rights and protection and live the way Americans have lived for the past two hundred
Eric February 25 Gun Control: Legal or Illegal Should having the right to bear arms still be a constitutional right even though the rises in criminal acts have increased dramatically? This is a question that has been crossing many Americans minds as criminal acts begin to sky rocket. According to the 2nd Amendment; it states that it allows people to keep and bear arms but restricts those who are connected with a militia. This law also restricts and limits the type of gun that can be possessed as a citizen. The controversial discussion about this right has been rose recently, and has begun to be more of a concern with the recent criminal activity involving shootings around America.