Controling A Gun And Gun Control In The United States

Student housing, personnel meetings, and sporting events are all places where guns are banned. Governor Nathan Deal of Georgia is even demanding that guns be banned from facilities where high school students take specific college courses. Tennessee and Texas have not addressed the topic of guns around dual enrollment high school students. Each state has requirements on who can carry as well. Texas goes a step further than Georgia and Tennessee and requires those who want to carry must undergo training from a certified instructor. No training is required for Georgia or Tennessee, but perhaps it’s something they should consider to greater ensure safety.

Gun Control in the United States has gone out of control. The United States should enforce laws to not allow any guns in a house hold in order to reduce violence and crime in the country. Reducing the rate of crime in the United States, controlling big weapons, taxing ammunition, and gun collection can help make this happen. Gun Control can make this country a safer environment to live in.

First, just because your state does allow open carry per the constitution does not mean that those that cannot legally own a firearm can carry one openly or otherwise.

On March 24, 1998, firing from the woods overlooking their school, 13-year-old Andrew Golden and 11-year-old Mitchell Johnson shot and killed four middle school students and a teacher and injured ten other students in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The two boys had a semiautomatic M-1 carbine with a large ammunition magazine, two other rifles, seven handguns and more than 500 rounds of ammunition which they took from the home of one of the boy?s grandfather, who had a large arsenal of weapons left unsecured. Officers arrested the two boys as they ran through the wooded area near the school, and they were convicted on five counts of capital murder and ten counts of first-degree battery in September 1998.

According to a World Health Organization study done in 2010, the Unites States of America has the fourth highest firearm homicide rate in the world after Afghanistan, Iraq and the Congo. More recently, a study done in 2013 by the Center for Disease Control found out that there were a total of 33,169 deaths with the use of firearms and more than half were a result of suicide. These statistics have sparked an extensive amount of modern debates on whether we as an American democracy need to amend the second amendment and regulate the purchase of as well as the right to individually bear arms. Two people who analyze this debate very differently but effectively are Zack Beauchamp who wrote “Rethinking the Right to Bear Arm”, and Nelson Lund who

Since then the government, states, and courts have created and implemented regulations such as the Gun Control Act and the Gun Free School Zone Act. These acts have determine locations and distances of which a firearm can be carried. Currently every state has a form of conceal carry; Illinois being the final state authoring this on 2013, allowing the use of a handgun for personal and home defense (Garcia Pearson, 2013). Home defense is considered a location where a person currently resides, but the states that do not allow of conceal carry on school campuses are denying citizens their judicious right. Currently eight states have passed a legislation allowing carry on campus with another twenty three states leave the decision up to the

Gun control has not been effective in the history of the United States. Even with laws that restrict gun ownership, it will not deter or prevent criminals from obtaining weapons or crimes from happening. Statistics can back up both sides of the gun control argument, but in reality simply having stricter gun laws does not stop crimes. Even with stringent gun laws criminals will find ways around them legally or illegally.

Gun control has been a debated, revisited and revised issue for more than a century in the United States. Recently, after several mass shootings in the United States, gun violence issues are; yet again, renewed and in the forefront for the United States. This paper will consist of insight on gun violence in the United States and the newly imposed gun control policies by President Obama; along with, the arguments for and against the new policies and what roles both the formal and informal actors have played in the resolve of this; once again, disturbing issue.

states. While machine guns, saw-off shotguns, silencers, armor-piercing bullets, zip guns, and explosive weapons are illegal, Texas does not have a waiting period for gun purchases. Additionally, Texas allows all qualified applicants to carry a concealed firearm with a permit.”(state laws). All states are different with gun restrictions. Texas is one of the least strict of all. Florida recently just changed their gun laws do to the mass shooting the just encountered. Most mass shootings are done by people that have no rights to have a gun. If someone is mentally ill or mentally retarded or can’t pass a background check then they shouldn't be able to own a firearm period. In Texas you can carry a gun on campus if that campus allows it.But it must be in a case and out of sight at all times. You are also allowed to have a gun on campus or in the classroom. But it is more strict when it comes around to sporting events. You are not allowed in any shape, form or fashion to legally carry a gun at a sporting event.Private schools have the option to ban guns from their premises if they please too. In Texas if alcohol at bars is 51% of their income each year, then Texas bans guns to be allowed in bars.Guns are used 2.5 million times in the U.S to save lives each year, or

Open carry in Texas was enacted on June 13, 2015 allowing people who have permits to carry their handguns openly without having to show permits to law enforcement. When this was first passed I wasn’t quite sure how I felt about it because the thought of people just walking around with guns’ kind of scared me a little since in today’s world shootings in public places have risen quite a bit in the last 10 years. The first time I ever saw someone carrying a gun in public I was a little nervous yet felt after at the same time because you don’t know if this person is crazy or not.

Carrying a concealed handgun in public is permitted in all 50 states, 42 of the states require permits while the other 8 do not (Farago). There are many different opinions on this topic where someone believe that they should ban carrying a concealed gun in public and those who believe that it's our right to carry if people want to. A man took out a gun and opened fire on barbers and customers inside Falah Barber Shop in Philadelphia. Another man that was passing by heard the gunfire and ran into the shop and pulling his own handgun out. He shot at the gunman and hit him in the chest, officials said they see it as a case of self-defense (Man). He is a hero for saving lives. People should carry for their safety and others, this is only one of many reasons why everyone should.

Some States have went and made their own laws against guns. Florida has allowed its citizens to carry a concealed weapon. Since this law was enacted

The 2015 Texas legislature passed a bill to allow concealed handgun permit holders to begin carrying their handguns openly. You do not have to conceal your gun like you did in the past. The bill was signed into law on June 13, 2015, and was effect as of January 1, 2016. Handguns should be carried in a hip or shoulder holster when out in the open now. Businesses can in fact say no to guns on their sites, areas that were considered gun-free zones before this bill took effect remain gun-free zones today. If businesses decide to ban guns they have to post signs to let their customers know. Some of the businesses in Texas (and other states) that are banning open-carry include Whataburger, H-E-B, Whole Foods, Randall’s Food Markets, Torchy’s Tacos, Jimmy Changas and Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen. Ariana P Habich/shutterstock.com. www.keranews.org

Gun rights groups have staged several large public rallies in recent years, sometimes at notable historical landmarks such as the Alamo, where members carried rifles in plain sight, which is legal.The state known for its “Wild West,” cowboy history and some the nation’s most relaxed gun laws, has allowed concealed handguns for 20 years. Concealed handgun license holders are even allowed to skip the metal detectors at the state Capitol, as state troopers providing security assume they’re armed.

Carrying a concealed handgun in public is permitted in all 50 states as of 2013. The entire United States has experienced an increase in CPL (Concealed Permit License) sales after mass shootings including the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting, Colorado Movie Theatre Shooting, and the mass shooting in Oregon Community College, and mass killing spree in Virginia Tech. These incidents have raised the bar for concealed weapons and have led to an increase of overall gun sales. Many people say that carrying a concealed is bad however that is not true if they are used properly and for the right reasons. People should have the right to carry a concealed handgun.