Gun Safety Analysis

This article also talks about the Sandy Hook shooting is where the start of this ban even caught president obama’s eye. The article also talks about how the president is using the safety of children to push this gun ban through. When adults take children to rallies to hold signs on sensitive topics, it always gives Power Play the willies. What does a 6-year-old know about abortion or gun control or the deficit that he or she wasn’t taught by his or her parents? When a 12-year-old attends an anti-war rally is he or she thinking about just-war theory and global politics or trying to impress an anti-war social studies teacher? This article will help me out because not only the gun ban will help prevent school shooting but in a way children are safe to go to school without having the fear of death.

After the tragedy at Umpqua College, the former president, President Obama, has addressed the nation for the fifteenth time concerning a mass shooting. President Obama has been trying to propose new laws to stop all the gun violence the whole time he has been in office. A recent presidential candidate, Jim Webb, had a recent debate over the mass school shootings. Jim Webb was a Democratic candidate for the upcoming election but recently dropped out of the election. In the debate Jim Webb argued that gun sellers have to stop the distribution to criminals, and the mentally ill. Mr. Webb believes that American citizens have the right to defend themselves but background checks must be enforced to firearm sellers (Pavlich 1).

A lot of firearm shooting in the public cases happened for the court to reform the law. Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords got shot in the head by a gunman in grocery store parking lot in Arizona. “The gunman killed six people, including a nine-year-old girl” (Opposing viewpoints….). There was a school shooting in Newton, Connecticut on December 14, 2002. A gunman, about twenty years old. Entered the school’s main entrance and shot five people including teachers and students. After that he went into a classroom and shot twenty first graders and six teachers before he killed himself. After this case, President Barack Obama tried to change the gun control laws to prevent innocent people from getting killed by firearms. “Obama’s act did not pass the Senate. But many supporters continue the fight to change gun control laws to prevent murders in the United States” (Opposing viewpoints….). The background check system needs to be fixed by creating a stricter system to keep firearms away from dangerous people. In 2007, student Seung Hui Cho, who killed 32 students, did not receive a background check system and bought two guns to attack Virginia Tech. “The case was the

After the tragic Sandy hook school shooting the National Rifle Association released a statement saying that “all American schools should have armed gunman or cops in schools to prevent these type of mass shooting happening in the future”.This statement was not taken lightly to left wing democrats that said things like,“dystonia vision," about the NRA statement. But the only problem I can see with the NRA's proposal is that it does not go far enough. All of these grievous situations can be prevented with the arming of the people most at risk in these situations, aka the children. Forsome reason nobody in this country is willing to admit the obvious, which is that the kids in that school would have been able to protect themselves and their peers ,if only we'd let them.

According to Michelle Ye Hee Lee, an author for the Washington Post, she claims that since the December attack in 2012 on Sandy Hook Elementary school all the way to the June 2014 Oregon incident there has been a total of 74 school shootings. This number will only rise if a strong gun control law is not enforced into the entire nation. For years now President Obama has been demanding stronger gun control but the conservative Republicans have been fighting the bill claiming that it jeopardizes the rights given by the second amendment. In the article “Gun Control is Unconstitutional”, the author quotes “in another issue of the Federalist Papers (No. 45), the powers of the federal government were to be “few and defined”... federal power to regulate guns is anything but “defined; it’s explicitly denied” (Gun Control is Unconstitutional). As someone who does not know the law as well as the individual writing this, if his argument is true. There are certainly alternatives which can work around this statement. One solution to this is having better backgrounds checks as well as a periodic mental health assessment of gun owners as well as future gun owners to make sure individuals with mental disorders such as schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder do not intentionally harm others because of their instability. A clear example of this can be seen on July 2012 after the latest blockbuster movie release of Batman. An individual named James Holmes arrived to the theater

The Second Amendment gives citizens the right to bear arms and individuals believe that this right is being taken for granted and away from their rights, so President Obama wants to be committed to the Second Amendment, but also protect the citizens from the gun violence by legislating proper ways to keep firearms out of the hands of dangerous people. “We won’t be able to stop every violent act, but if there is even one thing that we can do to prevent any of these events, we have a deep obligation, all of us, to try.” The goal of President Obama’s plan to protect the citizens is to develop policy proposals that will help decrease the amount of gun violence. President Obama would have meetings about his plan to amend the Second Amendment.

In fact, countries that have strengthened their gun laws after tragic school shootings have seen a dramatic decrease in them reoccurring. Adam Gopnik in his “Shootings” article described what happened when the British changed their gun laws, “In Dunbane, Scotland, in 1996, a gunman killed sixteen children and a teacher at their school. Afterward, the British gun laws, already restrictive, were tightened … and nothing like Dunbane has occurred there since” (2). A similar event happened in Quebec, Canada which resulted in a prompt response from the government, leading to far less shootings and fewer casualties (Gopnik 2). Screening potential threats and cutting them off from access to guns

Mass shootings have become a grim occurrence that seem to happen more frequently, no matter what repercussions they have. From the club shooting in Orlando to the violent attacks on students in schools, these events have unfortunately transpired repeatedly over the recent decades, with no end in sight. However, the recent Stoneman Douglas high school shooting may have begun the movement to change legislation so that these shootings present themselves, if at all, considerably less often. Most will say the government isn’t doing enough, but the likelihood that they will reject funding from the National Rifle Association (NRA) or amend Americans’ right to bear arms is so miniscule it is almost pointless to argue, however there may be a more plausible alternative. Congress and the President have the power to intensify the background checks and exams that citizens must undergo in order to purchase these weapons. More thorough criminal and mental examinations may prevents felons from obtaining these weapons of war, or could lead to the diagnosis and treatment of diseases such as depression or schizophrenia.

In the United States, there has been numerous shootings, but almost no impactful procedure to ban or restrict them, which is the President Obama issued executive action on firearms this recent January. Some argue he does this not to take away people’s rights away, but to ensure the safety of the people. The reasons are: to keep guns from the wrong people, increase background checks, and making communities safer from guns.

As of recent almost everyone has heard of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting that took place in Parkland Florida on February 14, 2018. This shooting has sparked much controversy over gun laws and legislation, 17 students were killed with numerous others injured making it the 3rd largest mass school shooting in US history. Anytime someone is shoot and killed it’s tragic, but why so much controversy and media attention you ask? Well many survivors of the shooting are saying Gun Laws are to blame, demanding change. In recent years Sandy Hook Elementary, Northern Illinois University, and the Virginia Tech University Shootings have all taken place but with not nearly as much media attention. Until recently guns where not to blame but the security of the schools and the sanity of the shooter where questioned, but today most want to blame the guns, when guns don’t kill people. Therefore, gun laws shouldn’t change but citizens and public security should change.

Then They Spoke to Lawmakers.” Talks about a possible ban on the sale of military-style firearms like the AR-15, the same gun used to kill 17 students at Stoneman Douglas High school. Now some may believe that take taking guns away is unfair and it will only make the problem worse. But only taking some guns away will still benefit the doubt of when someone thinks to go shoot up a school next. And yes, next time, because unless we do something soon, it might be our school next and who knows, maybe 18,19, or even 100 students get killed, but what if we could stop it or prevent it from happening again, the government must allow teacher and staff to have access to guns at school to protect themselves and their

Next, we have the gun laws of 1968, “ President Lyndon B. Johnson renews the fight for gun control. He wins passage of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 and the Gun Control Act of 1968.” these laws in Acts prevented persons who were convicted felons, drug user, and mentally ill from buying any type of firearm. Another thing these acts did was raise the age to purchase a handgun to 21. Also, the acts made it so gun dealers had to make detailed recordings of who purchased the guns. So far in history we can see the development of gun control, we can see that gun laws change from anyone can have a gun to I need the sane, safe, and responsible people can have a gun. To this point in history, there has been no school shooting.

As you are learning in school you and your friends hear talk about a shooter on the school campus with a gun and you hear gunshots in the hallway what do you do now? That's what happened to Columbine High School on April 20, 1999. Two shooters Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold who attended Columbine High School. Eric and Dylan sought out to kill as many people as they possibly could. The pair was able to get weapons from an outside source who was passed all the gun regulations at the time then the source gave the guns to the shooters. There was no way gun control laws could of prevented this tragic school shooting. The goals in this essay is explain how stricter gun control laws would not have prevented the school

    The first recorded school shooting in America dates back to 1764, during Pontiac’s war. Since then, hundreds have occurred, claiming many lives. In the modern era, the rarity of these events has been steadily decreasing, which may be a cause of the confusion that surrounds gun laws and regulations. The new debate over this issue in likely due to one of the worst school shootings in recent years- Columbine High School shooting in 1999. Since that event, over 150 shootings have occurred on school campuses. To deal with these tragic occurrences, the government has opened the debate on gun laws and regulations. But this debate often leads to officials being unable to make up their minds or whole groups of people

There are new proposed gun control laws in the aftermath of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut that occurred on December 14th, 2012. This incident claimed the lives of twenty 1st graders and six adults and has set the government in motion to try to prevent future acts of violence by strengthening gun control laws in the United States (Smith). This has been a topic that has been an extremely emotional debate with people on both sides unwilling to compromise. Gun advocates and critics of the new proposed gun laws argue that these new laws infringe on our constitutional