Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

School should be a place of peace and opportunity, but gaps in the system of gun control threatens the safety of faculty and students. School shootings have killed a total of 297 lives, young and old (Slate Magazine). Gun control has been a continuous nationwide debate for many years. It seems that no one wants to take a stance against guns unless they are personally affected. In order to take control of the matter and prevent more incidents from continuing schools need to change. To achieve a safe environment in schools need to educate faculty, safe and students, heighten security, and assess mental health issues.

There has been a study that we have about 10,000 homicides a year in America just annually, which is one of the highest rate in any nation. Most of these are just because of robbery and assault. Majority of the time 68% of the homicides in the U.S. alone (cite). With this research found out that the amount of firearm ownership, there is higher amount of gun assault (cite). This just means that they are correlated. This was found by a research study to try to see if the amount of guns and ownership would change with the amount of gun violence. They found out that violent crimes in the U.S. during the research study were about 505,495 and 464 for 100,000 people. While gun ownership were ranging from 65.5% to 8.7%. The psychological response to this is that people think that 31% to 53% of people who have gun think that they can feel safer with that gun (cite). But at the same time some people don't know how to fire a gun so it makes it subordinate for it being safe. Which makes them have a sense of false security. That is why there has been an increase in gun ownership in “unsafe” neighborhoods.

The high rates of gun violence and accidents in the United States have long aroused public concern, in view of the strong correlation between gun prevalence, many people believe that the United States must adopt stricter gun control measures to reduce the huge number of firearms across the nation. These people are known as gun control proponents, or advocates. However, many other people do not think so. In their eyes, the serious firearm problems do not result from gun prevalence, and many people would say it is not gun’s problem, people are pushing our

What makes gun control reform even more difficult is that many Democrats themselves can’t support gun control without risking their seats. Many representatives or senators come from districts and states that vote Democrat for different reasons, such as union strength in the Midwest or rising immigration numbers in the Southwest. However, states like Wisconsin, Florida, or New Mexico also are strong supporters of guns, putting Democratic lawmakers in a precarious position (Scher 2017). This split in the party makes it nigh on impossible for bills to get anywhere. Indeed we saw this to be true after the Sandy Hook shooting. Senator Dianne Feinstein has been a passionate advocate for gun control nearly her entire tenure as a Senator, becoming one of the leading Democratic senators in the push for gun control (Friedman 2013). Feinstein represents a state where gun control measures such as assault weapons bans are extremely popular (California), so there is no constituent fear from her to back off gun control (Wheaton 2017). After the Sandy Hook shooting, Senator Feinstein introduced a new Assault Weapons bill to replace the previous one which had expired in 2004. It made the sale, manufacture, or transfer of 150 semi-automatic weapons illegal, which had features like magazine releases and thumbhole stocks, restricted large capacity magazines, and used a one feature test to determine whether or not a gun was an assault weapon (Feinstien 2013). Democratic majority leader Harry

Gun control should not exist at all in the United States. Mass shootings have almost become seen as normal event in the United States. What people do not understand is that gun control is not the answer; there are countries with little to no control that have fewer shootings. According to The Washington Post,Finland is ranked number 4 in countries with the most guns despite that they only had 24 homicides by firearm (“Gun homicides and ownership by countries” n.pag.) . In the article Did Gun Control Work In Australia “it is shown that gun control has reduced the problems but it still has not completely got rid of all firearm deaths”(Matthews n.pag.). The number of murders, homicides, or suicides do not go up due to people just owning more guns. Clayton Perry, a staff writer at the University of Maine, even points out “Stricter gun laws were in place during the Assault Weapons Ban between 1994 and 2004, but that didn't stop the shooters at Columbine in 1999 ”(Perry n. pag.). In Iceland, thirty out of a hundred people own a gun and they have zero homicides caused by guns a year(“Gun Homicides and ownership by country” n. pag.). In this day and age, everything is unpredictable, guns are a form of protection for everyone and there should not be restrictions on protection. The U.S. Department of Justice released a data brief that states, “ On average in 1987-92 about 83,000 crime victims per year used a firearm to defend themselves or their property”(Rand BJS Statistician n. pag.). The National Sheriffs Association released that the average police response time is at eighteen minutes while the average school shooting only last twelve minutes (“Embracing Technology To Decrease Response Time” n. pag.). Gun control should not exist because other countries do fine without it , high gun ownership has no link with increasing death rates , and guns are not harmful when instructions are followed.

Every day in America an average of 93 are killed people due to gun violence. One of the biggest concerns today in American policy is gun control. This is a very controversial and complicated topic for both pro-gun and anti-gun supporters. American policy makers need to make it harder for the wrong people to obtain firearms and the fact that Second Amendment and gun control can co-exist. Mental illness constantly emerges in relation to mass shootings and shooters a like, as well as day to day homicides and suicides. America doesn’t necessarily have more crime then other developed countries the crime is just much more lethal. Right-wing Republicans constantly use the Second Amendment as shield to use firearms, the fact is the document is

Every so often the media and news feeds flood with reports of a mass shooting. Families mourn. In the days that follow, calls to action can be heard, and there is a demand for change. Sometimes minor legislation passes, but in the United States extreme change is rarely seen. Other developed nations provide an opposite comparison. Following the Port Arthur shooting in Australia and the shooting in Great Britain, both countries organized for significant gun reform.

According to Nicholas Kristof’s article “our blind spot about guns” gun control is a lot like cars regulation such that if we can regulate cars we can regulate guns. It took a lot of time and effort but thanks to regulations cars are safer than they were many years ago, and the same is very possible with guns. We need to keep our country safe. The first steps to gun control are improving on background checks and also requiring trigger locks on all guns.

This country has a mental health issue. We don't want to talk about it because it makes us look vulnerable. There is no law that can fix this, you could literally go door to door and take every single firearm in this country and we would still see tragedies like this occurring. We have a shit ton of people in this country and people like to kill each other, it's just the way this works for some reason. The reality of it is this; these public shooters are more or less a statistical anomaly. They're comparatively rare in a country where people constantly use illegally-acquired firearms to commit murders every day.

From 1988 to 2001, the usage of anti-depressant drugs in the general public increased by four-hundred percent (Swanson). The mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary took place in December of 2012, and during 2014, firearms were used in 88 percent of teen homicides, and 41 percent of teen suicides (“Suicidal Teens”). On February 28th, 2017, the Trump administration repealed a firearms regulation that prevented mentally disabled persons from owning guns. At the same time, teenage mental illness is on the rise, specifically in cases of depression and anxiety. A report from the Surgeon General shows that over 90 percent of adolescents that committed either suicide or homicide have or had a mental disability. Mental disabilities such as depression and anxiety put teenagers at a high risk for homicides and suicides. Teenagers who are stressed due to school, lack of parenting, puberty, bullying, and other factors can develop depression, anxiety or another mental illness. Allowing these teens easy access to firearms proves time and time again to be very dangerous. In some cases, the families of these teens have never been assessed to see if they can responsibly store firearms. The only background check performed is on the owner of the firearm, meaning that a person may own the weapon even if another family member living with them legally cannot. Loose gun control laws allow families with physiologically ill children to have access to firearms, without first checking to see if the disabled children in the home are responsible enough to be around said firearms. Repealing gun control laws instated by the Obama administration will cause an increase in adolescent firearm-related homicides, suicides, and tragedies similar to the one at Sandy Hook Elementary.

Concealed Handguns are a very controversial subject and many disagree, but according to the 2nd Amendment, of the Constitution, people have the right to bear arms. Even in the nineteenth century, the laws and opinions surrounding concealed weapons varied widely. Although many people blame guns for violence, it is people that cause the violence with guns. While opponents argue that a criminal or mentally disturbed person will carry a concealed weapon, licensed or not, innocent victims continue to die at the hands of private citizens, and that 5 percent of gun dealers that supply 90 percent of all crime guns.

One very large con of owning a firearms is that “...young adults who own guns are being categorically portrayed as menaces to public safety.” (Cox, 2018, p. 20). There are no real reasons why a person who owns a gun is a danger to the public, even if he/she has multiple hours practicing on a gun range to hone their skills, they are still the “bad guy”. “Blameworthiness and moral agency are irrelevant to the modern gun

Can you imagine waking up at three in the morning to the sound of your front door being kicked in, and police swarming in to your home, on a mission to remove all your legally obtained firearms, while ripping your house apart? I can’t, but that is what it seems like NRA activists imagine happening at the mere mention of gun control. Those two words seem to ignite the same “fight or flight” reaction as the boogie man to all my fellow gun-toting Americans. However, I believe that there is a way to bring those for and against gun control to a common ground by improving background checks, restricting gun shows, and banning semi-automatic rifles.

The second Amendment 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.” Throughout the past, that sentence has caused excessive debate. The controversialist is that some citizens claim that a gun control policy is unconstitutional, although other disagree and says that it is necessary in order to minimize crime. Now, what does gun control mean? If it means to examine who is accountable enough to own a gun by a “Worldwide background check”;that sounds ethical to anybody. But in article “Congress blocked Obama’s call for new gun laws after mass shootings.” Obama states “we’re going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics.” Which was referred to the Sandy Hook Elementary school shooting that had 26 victims involved, 20 being children that were executed and severely injured which happened on Dec 14, 2012 . Before that Obama's first term record was more focused on gun right than control. In 2010, he signed a bill allowing Amtrak passengers to pack guns in their luggage and carry loaded firearms into national parks. Ruin his 2012 reelection campaign, Obama said he wanted to work toward reintroducing a federal assault weapons ban, because “ Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don’t belong on our streets. A firearm gives you the power, to defend yourself or to kill someone else. You choose your destiny of what your going to do. The constitution gives you the right to bear arms and any law that tries to revoke this is unconstitutional. If the citizens agree to gun control it will be like giving the key to a brutal government but at the end of the day guns are not the problem, people are. An unarmed civilization is in danger of being distressed by its own government, but an armed civilization can cause harm within its own citizens. Most citizens think that gun control is a solution to fight crime. After that lethal event at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, the gun control topics became very fragile because of the 26 victims that lost their lives. Supporters of gun control claim that if there were no guns on the

Through my small amount of time knowing about firearms, one thing that stands out is people being much safer around a legally authorized firearm carrier. Unfortunately, even in open carry locations some people may get scared. People don’t realize that others are safer through deterrence. I, enjoy conceal carry and open carry, but realize that ignorant people will treat me as if I was about to commit a crime while picking out a fragrance for candle making or recycling. I, was advised that even though it was legal; to stop wearing a legal firearm while recycling.