Arguments Against Gun Control

The issue over the interpretation of the Second Amendment still prevails as one of the most controversial issues in the United States. 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.” The question at hand is the proper definition of a “well-regulated militia” and should there be restrictions on the obtainment of lethal weapons. Ever since the year of 1960, gun violence has increased, costing an average of 30,000 deaths in the United States (Gun Violence is a Serious Problem). This astronomical amount of unnecessary deaths will continue to rise if nothing is done to stop the serious epidemic that continues to plague our

Gun Control is a very controversial topic of today, many people believe that you stricter laws should be put in place to completely abolish the second amendment. Whereas the other side of the table thinks that if you want to exercise your rights you should be completely free to do so. I fall in towards the middle more towards the anti gun control. Guns should be able to be freely obtained within reason, convicted felons should have no right to own weapon. Though today there are loopholes helping criminals have the ability to get them. The “gun show loophole” is the first, it is a theory that is controversial because of its thought that it affects crime rates, usually this notion is brought up by gun control advocates. Gun shows are thought to be the reason that criminals can purchase a weapon without having to have a background check. Another loophole is called the “straw purchaser” this is also a thought that helps criminals or people who should not own a weapon purchase a weapon. This paper will help to determine what these loopholes are and how it could be

The news making the headline this previous couple of days is the truly appalling unforeseen development of six women and three men including a pastor who were shot dead at 9 p.m. on Wednesday June 17, 2015 at the Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston South Carolina , a historical church which was built up in 1816 as one of the most established African-American churches in the United States. The shooter 21-year-old Dylan Roof attended a Bible study meeting at the congregation. He sat there for 60 minutes and toward the end opened fire and told them "I have to do it”. “You raped23 our ladies and you're assuming control over our nation and you need to go". As per witnesses, Roof stacked and reloaded his weapon five times. He

Original: A study shows that “46% of gun owners report that their primary reason for owning a firearm is for protection against criminal victimization” (Wallace 158). This statistic is one main reason why gun control should be limited. If America were to take away the right to bear arms, nearly half of all people who own guns would lose their sense of security in their own home, town, and country. Esposito and Finley quote a policer office from 2013 saying “simply calling 911 and waiting is no longer your best option” (86). This isn’t because the police force doesn’t do their job well, but because criminals in the twenty first century are merciless and don’t allow time for cops to come save the day.

It was a beautiful Sunday morning of March 6, 1915 in Brunswick Georgia, where kids were outside playing and residents were strolling along the busy streets of local businesses, but the inevitable happened when a 59 year old named Monroe Phillips went into a building with an automatic shotgun and opened fire killing six people and wounding 32. 84 years later and Seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado opened fire at about 11:OO a.m on April 20, 1999 on a planned attack and killed 12 students and wounded more than 20 others. Soon after the pair committed suicide in the school’s library at 12:00 p.m. A decade didn't even pass by when Adam Lanza killed his mother in her own home on December 14, 2012,

In the United States, gun control should not be supported. Gun control is becoming a serious and dangerous threat to many societies around the country. Gun control is becoming abusive and outrageous for the United States. Criminals are using it for their own way of taking out their anger and causing people to not feel safe. Gun control laws should be more strict, restrictions on all weapons, also restrictions of being able to maintain a license, meaning background check and being able to provide a certified license to carry a weapon. Lives of the people in the United States have to become more secure and safer. That is the number one goal for the United States at the moment, which is to make everyone's life safer. Gun control laws and restrictions should be enforced more often. These laws and

Imagine a world where you wake up with an armed robber in your house with a gun already nearby. Would you have a good feeling knowing you can protect yourself right? Now imagine a world where you wake up with an armed robber in your house and you have no weapon to use for self-defense. What would you feel then?

In comparison, those who argue for a stricter gun control say that as a result of basically everyone of legal age being able to own a gun, a majority of people forget to see the actual danger these weapons bring along. To begin with, weapons often aren't locked away safely enough, making it easy for minors to come into possession of said item. They might not be able to estimate the risks coming with this and would be able to harm others without intending so. Not only children but adults as well often don't know what they're doing and think owning a gun somehow keeps them safe but don't care about educating themselves and stay inexperienced. Additionally, its way more easy for a suicidal person to get the measures to attempt suicide when theres

Friends, family or acquaintances are perished everyday due to ruthless killers. What interested me the most about this article is how a "mother" can get the courage to kill her own daughters. This is shocking to me because the woman just killed her daughters like it was nothing, she forgot that she carried them for 9 months and raised them to be the best that they could. The recent controversy on gun laws have also intrigued me to read this article. There are shootings and deaths happening every week, and something has to be done. I stand by the Second Amendment; I believe that people should have the right to bear arms, but I also believe that there should be stricter gun laws. This was a terrible day for friends and families of Madison and

Gun control, or the lack thereof, causes a really big discussion. On one side you have the people that say “no guns!” and people that hunt for game and whatnot. There is, and in my opinion, always going to be a big disagreement on gun control. It is that way because there are lots of people that have different opinions.

The truth is that people kill people, and a gun is just a gun that is used by people as a weapon. A gunshot involves movement and action to pull that trigger. When people say that gun control is good because guns are only made to kill, then why do they not question the people who pull that gun’s trigger. What would happen if instead of guns being banned, criminals were banned since they are the ones who commit the crimes? People who support gun control might say that gun control can help lower deaths, lower crimes, and most importantly save the innocent children and families. This, however, is false because gun control does not “save” or “protect” anyone, in fact, it might only end up harming people. Places that do not have gun control are

In today’s society, gun violence has become far too common. Every single day in the United States 96 people are killed by guns. This accounts for nearly 13000 deaths per year. Many gun advocates will make the clever argument that guns do not simply fire themselves, so why place the blame on them? While guns clearly do not fire themselves, they far too often fall into the hands of people who are not in the correct state to be responsible for such a potentially deadly weapon. No, one cannot solely blame these inanimate objects for the thousands of deaths that take place each year, however, they can question why and how these mentally disturbed people, are able to so easily gain access to them. The term “gun control” doesn't mean they want to take away the guns from those who have no intent to harm anyone with them, it simply means to make it more difficult for guns to fall into the hands of those who want to harm others with them.

Gun control is a serious topic that pops up in the news time and time again. One argument that is constantly made is, “If we were to ban semi-automatic rifles, we would then begin banning shotguns, then pistols, then knives.” This argument is deductive because it forms a claim that A leads to B, B leads to C, and so on. The premises of this argument is that if semi-automatic we banned. This is bad because it spawns a situation that is purely hypothetical. It makes the claim that something will occur if something that hasn’t happened already is in place. It’s a what if situation where it isn’t and can’t be proven until is occurs. Giving the opposition no way to argue against because they can’t prove that it won’t happen, but at the same time

The topic on stricter gun control laws have been a debate for a while now. America has been faced with multiple series of attacks in recent years. In 1998, at Columbine High School 12 students and a faculty member were murdered, then again in 2007 students and faculty members at Virginia Tech lost their lives from a senseless act. This sort of tragedy keeps repeating itself when in 2012 a shooter killed 20 first-grade students and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut (Rostron, 2014). The United States only accounts for five percent of the world 's population, and yet holds 40 percent of all firearms that are owned by civilians. Each year, about 30,000 people die due to firearm injuries in the United States (Glynn, 2013). Gun control restricts future gun owners on the type of firearms that can be purchased or sold, as well as the obligations that the buyer and seller must face with reporting the gun purchase to the government. The gun laws today are the cause of much violent acts in America. In 2013, the CDC reported that more than 33,000 firearms deaths: 70 percent of all homicides (11,208), more than half of all suicides (21,175), and hundreds of accidental and unsolved deaths. The New England Journal of Medicine reports, extensive background checks and denials on gun purchases can aid in gun violence prevention, especially mass shootings, such as the ones that occurred at Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Aurora, or Columbine, suggests a top expert

Over “100,000” people are shot every year in the United Stated of America (US News). Every day eight children die from a gun accident, which means nearly three thousands children will die from a gun, weather it could be a murder, a suicide or an accidental death, it was still caused by a gun (It’s Time for Gun Sense). I believe that there should be more gun control in the United States, because the fact that it is so simple to obtain a fire arm makes it far too easy for it to fall in the hands of someone that will use it the wrong way. I also believe there should be more gun control in the United States because it has got to a point where for about every “100 residents”, there are “88 guns” (The Progressive Cynic). Throwing guns at a gun problem will not solve it, it is as if you’re saying you solve obesity by eating. The only way to solve a gun problem, is to put more gun control on the people.