...Gun control has been a debated issue especially after the events that have transpired in the past year in our nation. Many believe that if there are stricter regulations for guns that violence will be reduced traumatically. The constitution states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." This gives the American the right to own a weapon. Of course this was written in the beginning of our country and times have changed. These days you cannot use it for unlawful use. Not saying that people will not use them unlawfully because it has happened in the past year and many are now trying to eradicate guns on a national scale. If our beloved country decided to remove the right to bear arms, the effect would be, if anything, negative. The people who want guns for illegal purposes would discover ways to get them, while the rest of us would have no way to protect ourselves against them. Our country should continue to have the right to bear arms. I believe that stronger restrictions should be made. I believe that every state should regulate the gun laws in their prospective state but on a federal level restrict what type of weapons should be allowed for sale. For example on the federal level the laws would regulate that assault rifles would only be used by our military and law enforcement. I used assault Rifles as an example because we are not in a state where we have militias like...
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...Argumentative Essay against Gun Control Argumentative Essay against Gun Control Since 1980, forty-four states have passed laws allowing gun owners to carry concealed weapons outside their homes for personal protection. (Five additional states had these laws before 1980. Illinois is the sole holdout.) A federal ban on the possession, transfer, or manufacture of semiautomatic assault weapons, passed in 1994, was allowed to expire in 2004. In 2005, Florida passed the Stand Your Ground law, an extension of the so-called castle doctrine, exonerating from prosecution citizens who use deadly force when confronted by an assailant, even if they could have retreated safely; Stand Your Ground laws expand that protection outside the home to any place that an individual “has a right to be.” Twenty-four states have passed similar laws. Guns, therefore, are necessary in today's society for our protection There is no point to implement gun control considering the reality that criminals will still find a way to procure guns if they want to do so. Criminals will always make sure to have access to the guns that they need to execute their crimes successfully. They usually have connections to other influential people that can provide them with the guns and weapons that they need in order to execute their crimes. The bottom line is that if the criminals want to have access to guns, they will be able to get them even if there is a gun control policy in place. This law will not stop...
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...Gun Control Paper Gun Control has been an issue that has been brought to the public’s eyes in recent years. This main issue has been going on for many years, for example when John F. Kennedy was assassinated; it raised public awareness to the lack of control on sales and also possession of guns in America. Until 1968 guns were available over the counter in stores and through mail catalogs to just about any adult in America. This was an example of how loosely guns were regulated which bring us back to the issue of guns. The constitution tells us in the second amendment that we, as American Citizens, have the right to bear arms. But the government is trying to change that by regulating everything to do with owning a gun. My stance: Gun control is just another way for the government to get into our personal lives. Gun violence is a common thing in America and it needs to be stopped some say. For example, Susan Milligan says this, “Opponents of any kind of gun restrictions argue that they are meaningless, since criminals by definition don't follow the law, and therefore won't allow gun laws to hamstring their criminal behavior. That's true. But gun violence isn't only committed by classic criminals, as recent gun-related tragedies show.” Now she argues that all of gun violence, well the majority, is because of criminals which bring us to background checks. When a person buys a firearm they go through a process of steps to make sure that they are capable of buying a firearm...
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...Gun control The U.S. should not have gun control laws. The Second Amendment to the Constitution states that, “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” This amendment has been around since 1791, and there has been gun control almost as long as it's been around. The National Rifle Association is an advocate of the Second Amendment and an opponent of those who propose restrictions on guns. Even Presidents Reagan and Bush are members, and Nixon, Eisenhower, and Kennedy were also members. Why do people feel the need to own a handgun? One reason is heritage. For as long as this country has been around, there have been gun owners, to defend themselves and to hunt for food. Buying, owning, or carrying a handgun doesn't hurt anyone. Until a person commits a crime, he/she is free to choose what he/she wants to do. Even if guns were completely banned from the U.S.A., people would still find a way to get them. Criminals would get guns. They would have their way, and there would be nothing we could do about it. We would have no way to defend ourselves. What is gun control to you? To me, it is the unconstitutional regulation and banning of guns to try to keep the crime ...
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...“Gun control” is a phrase that means different things to different people. It has been a serious topic of debate that this author now intends to prove as being right or wrong. There is no in-between on this issue. Both sides have received adequate attention and will be treated in an objective manner. For all the attention that gun control has received, there are two basic opinions that are to be discussed. To its proponents, gun control means prevention of crime. This, they say, should lead to peace. Charles Krauthammer wrote about this in “The Washington Post” in an article titled “Disarm The People.” He wrote, “…a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility…” Pro-gun activists, on the other hand, see gun-control as a threat not only to their self-defense, but also to their Second Amendment right. In an issue of American Survival Guide, Howard J. Fezell wrote an essay: “Your Individual Right to Keep and Bear Arms,” during which he made plain this fact: gun-prohibitionists have completely ignored numerous rulings of the Supreme Court in which the Supreme Court has stated the Second Amendment as an individual right, not a collective right. Also, they believe it to be a failed experiment. This is obvious in a statement by David Lampo: “The basic premise of the gun control movement, that easy access to guns causes higher crime, is contradicted by the facts, by history and by reason.” According to statistics, gun bans - the...
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...Gun Control Jose Moreno HUM/114 February 2, 2012 David Radcliff In today’s society the issues regarding gun control have been controversial. Many strict laws have been passed by the federal government to regulate ownership of guns. In an attempt to regulate gun control many people believe that past familiar high profile political shootings have been as a result of the impactful gun control restrictions. In 2008 there was a battle taking place in The Supreme Court that voted five to four in favor of the American people’s constitutional right to keep a loaded handgun at home for self defense. The ruling has made anti gun supporters disagree and angry. Weapons are tools used for a variety of reasons weather it’s for safe guarding material that is highly pilfer able or protection of a family home. Guns are tools that should be treated and handled with respect and should not be abused or misused by any means. It is a privilege as well as a right that a person may own a weapon if he or she should decide to do so. I support the right to own and bear fire arms. I understand that if weapons get into the wrong hands tragedy’s can be as a result. I also agree that crime is low in areas that support the right to carry weapons. Carrying guns may often time deter crime from happening. It is important to educate oneself on the issue of gun control so that the person can make a quality decision on whether or not it is to their benefit to own a weapon. I understand that crime will never...
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...Topic: Gun Control Purpose: Stricter Laws on Gun control Specific purpose: Gun Control Controversy Thesis: Most gun owners are responsible and law-abiding, and they use their guns safely. The President strongly believes that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms. But to better protect our children and our communities from tragic mass shootings like those in Newtown, Aurora, Oak Creek, and Tucson, there are four common-sense steps we can take right now based of the President’s Plan for Gun control. Introduction: I. While no law or set of laws will end gun violence, it is clear that the American people want action. If even one child’s life can be saved, then we need to act. Now is the time to do the right thing for our children, our communities, and the country we love. II. Congress must also do its part. To prevent mass shootings and other gun violence, Congress should take critical steps through new legislation, including: requiring Background checks for all gun sales; reinstating the prohibition on high-capacity Magazines; renewing and strengthening the ban on assault weapons; and creating Serious penalties for gun traffickers who help put guns into the hands of criminals. III. These actions will: help make sure information about potentially dangerous people who are barred from having guns is available to the national background check system; lift the ban on research into the causes...
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...Michelle Evans History of Gun Control July 9, 2011 Chapter IV History of Gun Control In the 1960s after the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Dr. Martin Luther King, and Senator Robert F. Kennedy, gun control became a major subject of public passion and controversy. To some people gun control is a crime issue, to others it is a rights issue. Gun control is a safety issue, an education issue, a racial issue, and a political issue, among others. Within each of these issues there are those who want more gun control legislation and those who want less. On both sides of this issue opinions range from moderate to extreme. Guns are not for everyone. Certain individuals cannot handle a firearm safely, and some individuals choose to use firearms inappropriately. Our society has passed laws regulating the ownership and use of firearms, and more legislation is being considered. Most of this legislation restricts, to some degree, the rights of individuals to possess or use firearms. Some restrictions may be necessary, but some recent legislation has gone too far. Society benefits from firearms in the hands of responsible citizens. Attempts to keep firearms away from these citizens do more harm than good. The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states: “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” The Founding Fathers included this in our bill of Rights because...
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...that they should have the protection that American citizens do. Citizens and immigrants alike do have the right to feel safe where they live. One major ban that helped in reducing the number of gun related fatalities was the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994. Since the ban has expired, more than 350 people have been killed and 450 people have been injured by military style weapons (Feinstein, 2013). The 1994 and the 2013 Assault Weapons Ban bans all rifles like AK-47’s and all shot guns like the IZHMASH Saga 12 types (Feinstein, 2013). What brought the gun debate to the tables of many families were the atrocious events that took place due to gun violence. The inhumane shootings in an elementary school in Connecticut and the movie theater shooting in Colorado have put the issue of gun control in the spotlight. These horrific events have spurned up the debate on how the government should go about decreasing the many innocent lives lost each year due to gun violence. Looking through the eyes of Dianne Feinstein, who is the Senator of the state of California, the ban of selling military style assault weapons and high captivity ammunition magazines is the solution to this problem (Feinstein, 2013).. This bill does not include anyone who already lawfully possessed a gun at the time of the bill being passed. The movie theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado was the main topic...
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...Gun Control Columbine, Virginia Tech, Aurora and most recently Newtown; these places will forever be known as sites of enormous tragedy. The flames of adults and children were put out, and innocent lives were taken. All some could do was hold back their tears and ask why! Rage began to consume some while they watched the families of the victims break down and become overcome by sorrow. They began to look for someone or something to enact justice upon. The blame quickly went to weapons, guns to be specific. According to many lawmakers, senators and associations, gun debate rages on to this very day. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) said, “Until we have such reason to believe that we’d have a different outcome I think the issue is resolved by the Senate”. While some may have some strong feelings otherwise, I believe that completely abolishing guns will not solve our problems. Taking away guns from law abiding citizens will only endanger them more. I believe it is nearly impossible to eliminate guns. Although I am against eliminating our right to bear arms, I do believe that there should be more strict guidelines and procedures for us to be able to own weapons; more comprehensive background checks, mental evaluations and less availability. Imagine this, you are a law abiding citizen and the government just ruled that you may no longer own a weapon. You turn in your gun and two days later, a criminal breaks into your home, armed, and begins to assault you and your family. If only...
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...Gun Control: The Big Picture George Washington's picture Submitted by George Washington on 12/17/2012 12:36 -0500 Preface: I was raised to be against guns. My parents hated guns, and believed that they only lead to crime and to accidental shootings. Raised in a blue state, I had the stereotype that militias were made of crazies … and so the “right to bear arms” as part of a “well-regulated militia” seemed like a nutty anachronism. And I have long been deeply influenced by leading voices for non-violence, such as Gandhi and King. So – Until recently – I was pro gun-control. As such, I understand that gun control arguments very well. Gandhi and the Dalai Lama Were AGAINST Gun Control I was surprised to learn that two of the best-known promoters of nonviolence in history were not opposed to guns. Indeed, Mahatma Gandhi taught that we must first be brave enough to use guns to defend ourselves, and only then can we be qualified to use non-violent methods. For example, Gandhi wrote in his book, An Autobiography (page 446): Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest … if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. As Gandhi wrote in Doctrine of the Sword: I do believe that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence I would advise violence. *** When my eldest son asked me what he should have done...
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...Freedom vs. Control The statement ‘The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed’ from the U.S constitution seems like a pretty solid sentence. There is really no way to misinterpret it. Our country gained its freedom with guns, kept its freedom with guns, and guns will play a vital role in keeping our freedom. The banning of firearms in America is an illegal act, and degrades the values this country has been founded on. Guns not only play a vital role in many people's lives, but are useful tools, fun to use, and can protect people from harm. Our founding fathers wanted us to have guns to protect ourselves and would be disgusted at our government's current abuse, and overall disregard of the constitution of the United States. Many people argue that guns kill people; this is untrue. Guns in the hands of a negligent person have potential to kill people, just as anything else. Guns do not kill people, people kill people; and for this reason alone banning guns would endanger society. Someone with the intent to do someone else harm will find a way, with or without a gun. The right to bear arms gives society a fighting chance to fight for themselves if a harmful situation should arise. Becoming solely dependent upon the Government to protect society is an unrealistic fantasy. This fantasy sounds nice; having a non-violent society is the ultimate goal, but will not be met by banning guns. Banning guns will give criminals more chances to inflict harm on...
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...Gun Control Weapons have been with us for a very long time. Longer than anyone can remember. It has become part of our constitution and a legal matter. It is made legal by the constitution and many other laws passed that require many steps to obtain a firearm. Although it is stated to be legal many people oppose the issue and I am one of them. Tens of thousands of people are killed every year by illegal guns thrown on the streets. There is never any gain from guns because someone always ends up dying for the right and wrong reasons. There are many ways to punish someone without the use of guns. Almost every day we hear a story in the paper or on the news about a fatality involving guns. One day it’s a little boy that shot himself or his cousin while playing with his father’s gun. Another day it’s a drive by shooting that killed a mother and her little kid. If guns were illegal then many people would still be alive. The United States of America has the highest gun death in the world, and its leading the other ranking countries by a very wide gap. If guns were illegal in the United States, and strict rules were enforced against those who are caught with a gun many people would fear the consequences and think twice about committing a crime with a gun. At that point criminals would face a much tougher decision whether to commit a crime or not. Many people make the argument that guns are for safety purposes and they should be kept in every house, but as statistics show...
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...a problem with guns. Like every other good old boy, I am concerned about being the victim of a random shooting, but at the same time, I want to be able to take down a nice10-point buck during hunting season. Guns effect every one of us every day. They fill us with fear or they make us feel protected. My point is this: guns are a problem, but using gun control to abolish them isn't necessarily the best solution. In gun control I mean laws that keep firearms off the street by preventing their purchase. I agree that some form of gun control is needed, but what we really need to concentrate on is gun licensing and more gun safety. I believe in my constitutional right to keep and bear arms, and I don't feel that legislators should be allowed to take away that right. Gun control can be a good thing, but if it leads to gun prohibition I will fight it until the day I die. Our country was founded on the basis of guns. The wars were won with guns and the people were protected by guns. Guns were so important that they were placed in the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution: A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Amendment II From this amendment it is apparent that the founders of our country knew in 1791 that guns did and would continue to play a role in the lives of Americans. Things haven't really changed that much. Gun control was brought into...
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...Position on Gun Control Michelle Musil Chamberlain College of Nursing Gun Control 1. What is your position on gun control? Make an argument that is supported by at least three statistical findings. My position on gun control doesn’t involve taking away our rights to own guns but it adds heavy restrictions when trying to obtain or when owning a gun. In an article by Browning, written in 1974, it states that 47% of suicides are accomplished with the use of a gun. I used a statistic from that time period to show the need to decrease the availability for firearms were just as important as it is today. Caron (2004) stated that by guaranteeing guns are being stored properly decreased the chance by 37.5%, that guns are going to be used in suicide situations. This also would decrease the chance of an accidental shooting that involves children who get ahold of guns. By saying that owning a gun would be beneficial if attacked is an attempt to divert the actual issue of gun violence. This is a logical fallacy, called red herring, which can be convincing but for the wrong reasons. Within this fallacy the statistics that go along with it are inaccurate because they show a favor for gun regulation. McClurg (2013) states that 55.5% of Americans support gun regulation. They believe that gun regulation would decrease gun violence across the country. 2. Find an argument in the media that uses statistics for its premise on an issue other than gun control, and critique it. What requirements...
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