Argumentative Essay: The Gun Control Movement

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Gun Control The Gun Control Movement is being reinforced because of the many incidents of public shootings during the past few years. There are some facts about gun control that you do not see by the media. Personally I am against the new changes that our president is trying to change. You first need to understand our rights and how the President can try to change the law. The purpose of the second Amendment (the Right to Bear Arms) and the Constitution are to create rights that cannot be eliminated or altered by our government. As citizens of United States, we have more rights and freedom than any other people do in the world. The Second Amendment of the Constitution reads; "A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and…show more content…
The Constitution does not give you human rights, however it protect our rights by regulating the powers of government. The Constitution has seven different articles that shape our governmental structure. It is design as the “checks and balances,” so that not one branch of the government can have more control over the other. The government has three sections: “federal, state, and local.” Each of these levels has three branches: “executive, legislative, and judicial.” There are two ways to amend the Constitution. The first process, “is for a bill to pass both houses of the legislature, by a 2/3 majority in each house.” Then once the bill is approved by both houses, it goes on to the states for voting. This is the most popular way amendments are passes. The second process is a Constitutional Convention, two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, and for that Convention to recommend one or more amendments, and then the amendments go to the states to be accepted by three-fourths of the legislatures. Therefore, by understanding how the government can try to change the amendment we all have a say when it comes down to it by

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