Gun Control in America
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.
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There was no parallel increase in mortality from causes other than guns, suggesting that other lethal weapons were not being used as substitutes. Other data also suggest that suicide rates depend on the availability of handguns. In particular, states with relatively stringent handgun laws have lower suicide rates (Block 23).
To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them… – George Mason “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.”2nd amendment. Americans ascribe several benefits to the personal ownership of firearms. Many believe they protect us against those who might harm us. They give personal satisfaction to others pleasure in the sport of target practice and in the hobby of gun collecting, a feeling of control, and perhaps social status. Some believe that possession is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and regards this benefit as an inalienable right. Guns also appeal to our American pride in individuality and independence. Lastly, the manufacture and distribution of firearms by American companies produce economic benefits. However the risk are somewhat more concrete. Firearms are often used impulsively against oneself or
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.
The second amendment gives people the right to own a firearm. The founding fathers might have thought a gun was the best form of protection but many years have past since then and humans have evolved. Times are different and society is different. Technology has a big impact on people and how we think and all those variables can affect people with how they react in stressful situations. We have to consider the mental stability of those in possession of the weapons, it is important to keep the weapon away from loved ones or other people, and is the law protecting those in possession of the weapons or putting lives in more danger.
In the United States gun control is a big controversy that has been blown out of proportion the last few years. Anything that has to do with guns in the news, reporters say it is the guns fault. Gun control laws are being changed and morphed for the new society that we live in today. What gun control really means is a group of laws to control the selling and use of guns.(1). Statistics have proven that most people want more control on guns. Many surveys have shown that the benefits of gun control in the United States out way the negative effects. Many people do not know enough about guns to get in on the argument, whether gun control is beneficial to the American people or not.
Whether or not there should be gun control in America is highly debated in the media today. Some people argue that gun control will reduce gun related violence, others argue it will have no effect. In the first article I read it argues that if regulations are placed on guns, than gun related violence will be reduced. I agree with this article and the evidence it provides.
There have been a lot of gun problems in America, deaths, threats and just guns. Every 100 people in America there are 88.8 guns in their family. People that own guns are 78% men and 80% women. They all say that they feel safer owning a gun in there family.
We want to study if more guns translate to greater deaths. According to Tita, over 200,000 people die every year from homicides, suicides or misfortunes relating to small firearms (2). Gun violence in the United States is on the rise since time immemorial. Therefore, the study will explain why several deaths are as a result of guns. Furthermore, it will elaborate on the reasons why people use firearms to commit homicides and suicides.
On July 23, 2015, a 59 year old man opened fire during a showing of Trainwreck in Lafayette, Louisiana. He killed two people and injured nine other before committing suicide. This incident has opened the eyes of Americans to a new question. What has been done to decrease the amount of shootings after the horrific tragedies of the 2012 Aurora and Sandy Hook shootings? Congress has passed many laws to restrict the citizen’s right to carry a gun. The verdict still stands if these laws are helping the people or restraining their right to protect themselves.
Eliot Spitzer, An American politician, once stated, “Yes, people pull the trigger, but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror” (Spitzer, 2012). Spitzer must have been aware of the magnitude of gun violence and the need for gun control in America. The National Rifle Association (NRA) members believe that it is their constitutional right [ 2nd Amendment] to own guns and many mention that firearms are not the root of crime in the United States. Pew Research Center, in a poll on guns, showed that approximately 40% of the United States has a firearm in their home (Desliver, 2013). The NRA also suggests that firearm ownership is not connected to criminal violence or the increase in violence.
So far in 2018 there has been 23 school shootings since the 25th of May, the year before that there was 65. On the 15th of February, Nikolas Cruz killed 17 innocent teenagers and injured 17 others. Ever since that day, teens all across the US, have been protesting. Gun Control is the set of laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms by civilians. This essay aims to give compelling reasons as to why the US should have stricter gun laws.
This article is about gun control in America. First, it talks about the situation in America that many lives are taken by guns. However, there are still many lobbies which are pro-gun. At the same time, many else are against guns. Just after that, it mentions about the government pay more attention on their votes rather than protecting innocent people. It also points out that there is no need for citizen to keep a gun protecting themselves from nobody since this country haven’t suffer a war for almost two hundred years. At the end, it takes British for example that most people there have never touch a gun, even their polices don’t carry their guns. On the opposite, American can buy a gun just on a Saturday afternoon shopping trip.
Gun control (or management of firearms) pertains to regulations or laws that supervise the production, sale, movement, ownership, refinement, or utilization of guns in order to restrict crime and lessen the damaging results of violence. These laws differ considerably around the world. While advocates of gun control mainly argue that extensive gun possession escalates the hazards of gun brutality, opponents contend that gun control does not diminish crime and breaches individual rights. Gun control, in it's entirety, has been a greatly talked about issue in the United States. The 2016 Presidential election also hasn't been shy to bring this matter to the forefront, with Trump and Clinton being two of the biggest names to discuss it. To begin,
Public ownership of guns has been a common practice in many countries of the world, including the United States of America. Many people indulge in the purchase and use of various different types of guns in the western world for legal purposes such as hunting, sporting uses, and recreational purposes. However, the most important purpose for owning of weapons is for the purpose of self-defense. The public ownership of guns in America has been a trend that has existed for over a century and ownership is considered a part of the heritage. This is known as the gun culture in the United States of America (Hofstadter). Elsewhere, especially in countries such as the United Kingdom and Australia, gun culture is more referred to the increasing use and ownership of guns by the criminals (Hope).
Many activist think that they could control the gun violence in America, just by taking away weapons from the people and making new laws. What they don’t know is that there are many loopholes in the laws that they make so peoples find ways to get guns. We already have gun control laws from back then. the government just passed more laws instead of enforcing the laws that we already. ”The activists pass more and more laws thinking that the more laws we have the better they would be enforced.” (Drake) They banning all sorts of guns and doing a whole bunch of other useless things. the guns have been in america 's history for hundreds of years and they are just now making newer laws that causes them to ban guns. The percentage of people supporting the gun control laws went up by eight percent. The guns have been in america for hundreds of years and the gun control and restriction laws have been very slowly taking out the guns in america.
In the recent years there have been many mass shootings not of one culture or race, but people of many races and ethnic backgrounds. The shootings have taken place in elementary schools, colleges and concert venues. The motives behind these shootings are not clear. Yet the question is still asked why do these shootings happen? What is to blame for these shootings and how can they occur so rapidly? Gun control is one topic that comes to mind when this given issue arises. If there were stricter laws that were established for gun control there would mostly likely be a decrease in shootings. In that sense gun laws are established, but are not strict enough to decrease the number of shootings in America.
I have chosen to write about the debate of gun control in America. This debate is becoming much more heated and talked about with more shootings happening. The Democratic Party believes that all guns should be banned; The Republican Party believes that citizens should have the right to own a gun. However this argument is not all black and white; in fact, the entire debate is a massive grey area.