Arguments Against Gun Laws

Countless opinions have been broadcasted on national news media regarding what society ought to do about gun control. This controversial topic sparks many heated debates with people of either position reluctant to compromise. Gun supporters claim that the proposed gun laws infringe on their constitutional right to bear arms. Conversely, others believe that restricted gun access would cause gun violence to decrease. Regardless of what side one stands on, with the increase in gun violence, it is safe to say that something must be done.

Jill Silos-Rooney’s current professional associations include Bethel Woods Center for the Arts., MassBay Community College, and Oxford University Press. She begins her article, “The Top 3 Liberal Arguments for Gun Control”, with an anecdote about a nine-year-old girl who accidentally killed her gun instructor with an Uzi and proceeds to list off two counterarguments and rebuttals and three assertions for gun control in her Thought Co. article, covering what she believes the best arguments for said gun control are. Her strongest pieces of evidence that support her central claim that “America Needs More Gun Control” (page 1) are “Australia, which has a similar frontier history to that of the United

Gun control laws should regulate production, distribution, ownership and use of firearms by civilians. Gun control laws are not intended to dispossess law abiding citizens of licensed firearms but to intervene on reckless use of firearms that cause harm to the public. Gun control should also make it difficult for criminals to access firearms. Armed civilians have in many instances deterred acts of crime from being instigated by scaring away criminals. Nonetheless, gun laws can only be described as immensely lax. This essay seeks to argue for the enactment of strict gun control laws by highlighting the dangers posed by guns in the hands of members of the public.

Recent incidents of gun violence have brought a new group of supporters against gun violence. Increasing support from the young people has significantly strengthened the gun control movement. For instance, thousands of students participated in a demonstration after the Parkland shooting, and this was one of the largest demonstrations by students in the US history (Holpuch, 2018). The students’ demonstration included a memorial for the victims of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting. The youth-led campaign has been creating pressure for the government to act. According to Szekely (2018), the students’ participation in the demonstration against the killing of their fellows “has chipped away at legislative gridlock on the issue.”

An un-armed population will have a difficult time protecting itself from criminals that clearly do not care about laws and would most likely be more successful in committing a crime if their intended victims are incapable of defending themselves. While there are numerous reasons, including social, economic and mental health, as to why criminals commit crimes, having access to guns is not one of them. The 2nd Amendment of 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” (U.S. Const. amend. II). Protecting the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution is vital because limiting or outright denying law-abiding citizens the ability to possess firearms, which are nothing more than a tool, will cause more problems, such as higher crime rates, than it would solve.

The argument of gun control has become a debate of society. There is a lot of emotional rhetoric behind this debate. Gun control will not work as statistics, history (with other foreign countries), and common sense have shown. Gun laws will not significantly modify the already false accusations made against guns and gun violence.

Imagine a typical day in a small suburban town in southwestern Virginia. It’s around 9:00 am, and you are in your French class. Then, all of a sudden, you hear banging noises coming from outside your classroom. This is the true story of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shooting in April 2007 as told by Colin Goddard. Goddard was shot four times by the gunman: three bullets to the hip and one bullet to the shoulder. He still carries three bullets with him today and has a titanium rod in his body. The shooter had a history of mental illnesses and should not have qualified to purchase firearms. However, due to ineffective and inefficient gun control laws, the shooter was still able to purchase weapons. The United States

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

First, I believe that how guns are used is up to the person holding it. Guns can't do anything by themselves, it is the person who has the gun that decides where it shoots. Gun control will not stop or help to prevent violence; an aggressive person does not need a gun to be violent, there are many other ways for one person to hurt another person. Taking guns away from all people will not make the violent ones less violent. It may even make them more violent than they already are. Violent people will always find a way to be violent. Taking guns away from everyone does nothing to prevent people from the possibility of being hurt, robbed, and killed by others. I believe that gun control will not last as we have already had something similar to

Nowadays streets are scary to walk alone at night. Crime rates have increased currently and people are nervous to leave their own homes at night. Sadly, unlike cartoons, there is no hero that is going to swoop in and save the day. Imagine you were sitting in your parked car next to dark streets, lit up only by a dim lamp-pole. You see a man walking slowly with his head down and he starts walking towards your car. He taps on the window. In this moment, wouldn’t you want to be able to protect yourself? You don’t know what this man is capable of or what his intent is. When you roll down your window to ask what he wants, he pulls out a gun. If you were weaponless, there would be a high possibility that you would not survive. Imagine this instead. As he pulls out his gun

 Gun control has become a controversial topic in the United States. It has formed the foundation of many debates, which have resulted into general arguments that either support or refute the gun control regulations. The gun control laws were first enacted by the Congress in 1930’s. The federal and state laws stipulate the groups of people who are prohibited from owning firearms. These groups include fugitives, illegal aliens, individuals who have been pronounced to have unsound mind by a court, felons, individuals who have been restricted from serving in the army, people who are no longer US citizens, persons with restraining orders for domestic violence, and people who are addicted to substance use. The gun control laws have set 21 years as the minimum age for people to buy a gun from a federally licensed gun dealer only and 18 years as the minimum legal age for owning a gun and transfers from any unlicensed firearm dealer. The main objective of these federal laws is to prevent individuals from owning guns illegally, limit handling concealed guns outside the homestead, stipulate terms and conditions that prevent people from owning guns, and control the design of guns so as to improve public safety.  Improving public safety is the most fundamental role of the gun control laws. Innocent lives being lost as a result of increased gun violence should be put to an end through gun control.

Crime and victim of crimes are and everyday news headline in the United States. What is never far from these headlines is the high levels of these crimes were committed with a gun. The next ensuing headlines are the topic of gun control. Many will argue that there are too many guns in America. Advocates of gun control subscribe to their argument that guns are easily assessable that there is a correlation between the number of gun crimes and the availability of guns. Gun right advocates will point out that the high numbers of gun related crimes are due to the size of the population. A continued argument is the majority of crimes committed with a gun were obtained illegally. Gun control will not stop crimes committed with guns, it prevent

There have been long debates about gun control over the years. Some state that these laws are beneficial because they restrict arm possession. In this way, the crime rate will decrease, there will be less suicides cases and fewer accidental injuries. The public shootings from the US that happened in the last past years have encouraged these voices to speak even louder and to ask for more aggressive laws.

The Second Amendment has brought a lot of controversy to the table of governments. There are two opposing sides, one who supports the Second Amendment while the other side does not. This topic seems to be around a lot lately especially with the incidents that have occured in the past few years. One of the things to keep in mind is whether or not guns kill people or people kill people.

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