Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

Gun control has been a long debate to determine if it’s better to have stricter access to firearms. America is one of the few countries that has gun rights embedded in their constitution. But what makes the US exceptional is that it has the right to keep and bear arms, other countries do not provide the right to have access to them, but rather, the government is allowed to regulate its use. The right to bear arms has also been the cause of growing violence and crime, at least according to anti-gun lobbyists. Citizens should be aware the dangers and harm that guns present to society. Controlling the sale of firearms can greatly decrease the number of violent crimes.

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.

With gun related crimes steadily increasing, the spotlight has been on a solution to cease firearm problems. Firearms have been around for hundreds of years, and they are included in self-defense, sport, show, and unfortunately crime. The danger of the situation immediately escalades when there is a firearm involved. A plan to fix these issues has been talked about and looked at throughout the recent years, but there are many different aspects you have to look at when trying to find a solution for this problem. However, not all gun related situations are at fault, for most people follow the law, using and collecting the guns for sporting, collecting, and self-defense purposes. The second amendment in the constitution gives citizens of the United states the right to bear arms. Areas of concern that can be focused on to prevent future danger in firearm situations are gun control laws, process undergone

I want each and every one of you sitting here to imagine how it would be like if there is a person sitting next to you with a concealed handgun. Would you be fine with that or would you tremble in fear just like me and wonder if this would be the last moments of my life. People often claim that owning a gun would make them feel safer, but have they ever thought about how people around them would feel. Therefore today, I am here to talk about why the Texas legislature should repeal Senate Bill 11 which is campus carry. I have done research trying to understand the challenges we students would face with the help of Internet. So today, we would take a brief look at what campus carry is? Secondly, we will talk about the reasons why we do not need such a bill in our campuses. Thirdly, few ideas and plans on how we could stop this bill. And last but not least talk about the practicality of our plan.

We see and hear about it on the news how someone shot and killed someone and we all think why do people do that or what gives them the idea to just go out and take another living human life away. Then the issue is would it be better to make Gun-control even more strict so that the deaths caused by gunshots could lower? So when people do bad, other people look for a solution on what to do and the idea that keeps getting tossed up is to make Gun-control more strict so it doesn't happen as often. But this shouldn’t be the case since there will always be gun violence. The issue isn't the gun, the issue is who wields it and uses for harm instead of protection. Then will this person who has a gun will he/she be mentally stable enough to use it

In the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas this year, there have been more tension around gun-control than ever. This shooting has inspired a new wave of people to argue over whether or not the United States needs new gun laws, one side argues that we need more restrictions on the owning of guns, the other side that it's a citizen's right to own a gun and to take that away is unconstitutional. In this paper, I will first give a rundown of the history of laws concerning gun control, then I will talk about whether or not America should pass more gun laws then I will address how this relates to previous cases involving gun control.

The first legislative attempt of gun control was in 1934; it started the fight between the National Rifle Association, who believed it was unfair to the law abiding citizens to limit their rights, and lawmakers wanting to limit the amount of crimes. The debate has grown and changed immensely t over the years, but the issue is still there (Magoon). This year in Colorado, Senator Vicki Marble, Representative Stephen Humphrey, and Representative Lori Saine have been the Prime Sponsors for the repeal of the ban of possession and sales of large capacity magazines (Repeal Ammunition Magazine Prohibition). This is known as Senate Bill 17-007; it states that part 3 of article 12 of title 18 of The Colorado Revised Statutes should be repealed and adds a safety clause stating that it needs to be implemented for the “public peace, health, and safety” (Concerning the Repeal of Certain Provisions Concerning Ammunition Magazines). Large Capacity Magazines (LCMs) are generally defined as holding ten rounds or higher, but in the case for Colorado it is defined as holding 15 rounds or higher (Large Capacity Magazines). SB17-007 was introduced January 11, passed through the Senate but was indefinitely postponed by the House as of March 22 (“Repeal Ammunition Magazine Prohibition - SB 17-007”). Senate Bill 17-007 will repeal the ban on large firearm magazines; it should be passed because the prohibition has not shown any decrease of deaths in mass shootings and infringes on America’s second amendment right.

Gun Control I believe are great laws that help the country rid themselves of violence by taking away fatal weapons that are used by those unsuitable to use respectively and defensively, but that is what the gun control laws are for. The gun control laws are to take away weapons from the ones who would use them not for self defense, but rather they would use it for reckless murder. To be honest the gun control laws are not 100% guarantee, because of the fact that you really don’t even know if those people the people who have a clean record with the cops. You never know they can change their mind and go crazy and go and do a murder, but it is better than just giving and selling guns to everyone in the United States and allowing anyone to buy and sell weapons. Being able to have people being able to have their weapons in their pockets is a controversial issue, their is a good and bad to it the good is it is great for self defense at critical moments the bad is that that person who has the weapon holstered may just be a person who is going to commit a massacre. You see nobody knows who will not or who will murder people it is hard to tell even if someone has a non criminal background it is still hard to tell. In fact when guns are allowed to be holstered the murder rate in the country rises as shown in Agresti, James D., Smith, Reid K. & Guerra, Rebecca. “Gun Control Facts.” Just Facts. 6 November 2017. Web. 8 November 2017. (-- removed HTML --) . When gun control laws are thrown to the curb they put many more lives at risk such as this website showing murders in states increase when weapons are holstered.

Gun Control is one of the most debatable topic in the United States for the past several decades. America has witnessed assignation to mass shootings. Every time violence and guns are a factor of traumatic events the ongoing topic of gun control reemerges. The question that is asked is if our nation should enforce stricter gun laws. Would these new gun laws contribute to the decrease of gun crime in our nation? American citizens stand divided on this issue; both sides taking a strong position as what they strongly believe what should be done about guns.

Gun control is a big thing in the world today. Many Americans want it but also many don’t. There are both good reasoning’s and there are bad reasoning’s. Gun control is for our own safety but can also take our safe feelings away by knowing we won’t have a gun in hand to protect us in a real time of need. The second Amendment is commonly used when trying to set up the restrictions and rules of these gun control laws. There are a lot of regulations being set up and still are being made to “keep us safe.” Strict gun laws can be good for American citizens but they also can be life threatening in times. There is a never ending debate on gun control and Americans will always fight for their rights. The government should not be allowed to regulate the purchase on the owning of guns.

Lately, there has been a controversy about gun control due to an increase is gun crime. With all the crimes throughout the years, many people don't know if we should have more laws for firearms or no more than what we have now. Within the last year, there has been about 53,000 incidents alone, but the year before was about 52,000 so not much of a difference of the two years. With mass shooting between the years 2014-2015 here is the only difference of eighty that had occurred and been reported, but yet with the accidental shootings, they are about equal with 2,000 that were reported (Past summary ledgers). The number of deaths that happened in 2015 was around 13,000 and in 2014, it was 1,000 less than that within the year gap. The new laws not only affect the people who oppose firearms but

Guns are a part of American history, they helped free our country, and are used to protect us today. Guns have built up the identity of our nation as a whole, we used them in many wars and to separate ourselves from Britain in order to build our own country on our terms. The use of guns is protected in the Second Amendment, which says, “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.” This amendment alone should be the end of this discussion, it was written by our founding members that we have guns for our own protection and use, (Should Gun Control Laws Be Enacted).

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.

Many Republicans are strongly opposed to any kind of gun control and many Democrats are pushing for gun ban laws. I believe America needs to find a middle ground and a gun reform plan should be put into action. Maybe we could take lessons from other areas around the world that have had success with gun reform.

On December 14, 2012, twenty children between the ages of six and seven as well as six adults were killed by a senseless shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary school. On that day, twenty six families were forced to mourn the lives of the loved ones that were taken away from them too soon. The shooter had been previously diagnosed with a mental disorder but was allowed to legally purchase the firearm he would later use to kill twenty six American citizens(“Deathly silence; Guns in America”). If the senseless slaughter in an elementary school does not provoke humanity to take action against the lack of gun laws in America then what will? How many more people must lose their lives before change occurs? For this reason and many others, there should be heavier restriction on owning and purchasing guns based on the benefit to decrease in homicides and mass shootings and overall American safety.