Gun control laws do help prevent this from happening as often. Not every individual should be allowed to own a gun, especially people who want to cause harm to others. Plenty of people who are law abiding citizens, and follow gun law regulations, feel as though they are punished for people’s violent actions. An example of a group of people who are against gun control laws are the members of the National Rifle Association. (Scalia, 2011) In states like California, the gun violence is one of the biggest problems the citizens and government officials face on a daily basis.
Gun Control Laws Who are the real killers the gun or us? The gun laws today are getting looser and looser when it comes to who can buy them and operate them with or without a license. Now a days many people buy their guns for auctions or on the black market for little to nothing and they don’t even have to own a gun permeate or a gun license most situation. In Memphis TN we have the most nonchalant gun laws that you can find in the south, and the reason I say that is because you can be 16 years of age and own a hunters rifle with legal paper work or a license. Most of the people that I know that own guns back home don’t even have a gun license and they are not planning on owning one anytime soon.
Bogus Carl T tells us, that these two laws do not cover private gun sales at gun shows (para 10). Therefore, when purchasing a gun at a gun show, there would be no criminal back ground check and no restricted gun models. Thus, a easier access for criminals to acquire weapons. For example, the tragedy of Columbine high school killings, the two boys purchased their weapons at a private gun show. According to Ted Lewis, “Eighty percent of the 75,000 guns Mexican authorities seized from criminals during the past 3 years came from the U.S.” (16).
The Supreme Court ruled on June 28th 2013, that individual Americans have a constitutional right to own guns- to all cities and states for the first time. New gun control laws will only farther erode our rights. One of the strongest arguments in favor of people who want to carry firearms is that nine of the states that have the lowest violent crime rate in the country are those that allow its people the right to carry guns. Gun-control laws have never, and can never, reduce violent crime. That's because anti-gun laws don't affect criminals, who ignore the laws.
On average it takes 15-30 minutes for police officers to get to a crime scene. Taking away the Second Amendment is like taking away the right for citizens to protect themselves. Did you know that currently there are almost 1,700 citizens per police officer? So it’s concluded that the police might not always be there to protect you; that’s why citizens need guns. The Virginia Tech shooting would never have happened if those students were armed as indicated in Document 3.
Gun control has been a debated issue for years. The majority of citizens believe that if gun control is strictly enforced it would rapidly reduce the crime levels. Many innocent citizens feel they have the right to bear arms for self-defense, or even for the pleasure of hunting. To enforce gun control throughout the nation means violating a person’s Constitutional Rights. Some people feel that the issue of gun control will limit crime and the fact that guns are necessary for self-defense against crime, and that enforcing gun control is a violation against a citizen’s second amendment right to bear arms.
Feburary 26th Gun Control in the United States Throughout our nations history, we have been battling the idea of whether us citizens should or shouldn't have the right to buy and own a gun. According to the Coalition for Gun Control, about 291 people were killed last year by handguns in Australia, Japan, Great Britain, Sweden, and Switzerland. In the United States, try 24,000 people. What is the big difference between the U.S. and those other countries? In those countries it is nearly impossible for you to buy any kind of gun.
In addition, we do have a grave problem which has been controverted for a long time that is gun control ordinance in the social life. Gun violence and accidents are increasing every year. In the United States, most of the states can buy guns legally, and some of the states’ purchase requires no license. Some states in the United States have a strict gun control law. One of them is District of Columbia.
Gun casualties and incidents throughout the country have woken the public up from its ignorance and shown them the danger guns can pose to society (Martinez, 2013). While some people want a complete blanket ban on the ownership of guns, others wants an easier access to guns so that every person may look after their own security. Part of what makes the term gun control a very controversial topic is that it’s used in a ambiguous way that does not explain the details of the issue and the demands, apart from literally controlling guns. The two prominent sides of the debate are the groups who ask for liberal gun laws that make it easier for a person to procure guns and conversely, there are groups who want to repeal the second amendment. I personally am a strong believer that an “ideal society” should have no guns; nevertheless crime is a big problem to the citizens of our society and guns are necessary.
I will explain why more gun control is bad, and some that we already have are bad, for the United States of America; based on answers of why people think we need gun control. The United States tops the list for number of gun related deaths each year(Masters 2013). That statement is very true, the United States has over two hundred seventy million guns with a gun death rate of eleven thousand seventy eight people. The United States has more guns per a 100 persons (88.8 Masters 2013), yet in Japan guns are banned and they still had eleven murders by gun. That is a lot in a country where you can not buy a firearm.