Setting Limits on Guns in America

United States is a country that has problems with gun control, and this issue has many debates between whether or not people should be allowed to carry a gun on them. This free county not only for speech and religion, but also allows people to have the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment of the United States was written by our Founding Fathers,“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” (Government). The main purpose of the Second Amendment when our Founding Fathers wrote this amendment was to help the American citizens to defend themselves from the government at that time, and other countries from invading their properties. However,

The Second Amendment to the Constitution is one of the most debated issues in the history of the United States of America. The Second Amendment reads, “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.” CITE

Second Amendment is people have the right to keep and bear arms. Second Amendment was written in way back eighteenth century when people needed protection from British. Thousands of people are losing their lives each year. People have used guns most likely to rob people, suicide, and murder people for their own revenge or either for no reason and they have least likely used the guns for hunting, target shooting, social reasons, self-defense. Now a day’s American citizen does need to own a gun for their self-defense or protection because police is there for them. The right to bear arms is not applicable in twenty first century because people have been using guns for revenge, robbing houses, banks, and to kill people for no reason.

The Second Amendment allows us Americans to bear arms. The right to bear arms is the right to possess a weapon in this country. Giving us the opportunity to have access to a weapon if the situation ever needs to escalate that far. Now this amendment is in question due to politicians trying to take our guns away to reduce the violence in the country. Taking our guns would not benefit this country in any sense. The more guns the government takes the more violence will happen. The less presence of weapons will give the violent offenders better opportunity to commit inhumane crime.

The full content of the Amendment II of the United States Constitution 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” (Am Gov 2015-2016 p.78). This amendment was created by the founding fathers based on at the time situation of the young country of the United States to protect the people from enemies. However, in 2008, the Supreme Court developed a new meaning of the Second Amendment with its conclusion in District of Columbia v. Heller that “The Second Amendment confers an individual right for citizens to keep and bear arms to protect themselves” (Am Gov 2015-2016 p.79).

The Second Amendment states that every person is entitled to “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,”(Moeller). This rule allows people to freely own and operate weapons of their own choice. Since these laws have come upon The United States there has been, “over 1,000 Second Amendment cases challenging gun laws nationwide, with an overwhelming majority—94%—of the lower court decisions upholding those laws,”(Langley). Even with the majority of the cases being upheld, it could be considered an infringement on a person to control their rights and liberates. The government has been doing a lot to crack down on handgun violence, but while doing so has stirred the pot with many individuals who believe the right to bear an arm is an entitlement.

In my opinion there should be a gun policy. I believe there should be a ban on all assault rifles because those are the weapons being used in mass shootings. Something as simple as more in-depth background checks or longer wait periods to receive gun license could be useful. Required background checks for all gun sales would only strengthen the system. This

How many times are these mass shootings in the United States of America going to take place? How long is too long before we realize that “Sending our prayers and thoughts to the victims of the families affected by such tragedies” is not going to cut it? When are we going to address the fact that America as a whole needs to take action towards such horrendous tragedies? Blaming such events on terrorism, mental instability and so forth is not the solution. We need to look at the big problem before us and that is we need to regulate gun control. If we have these regulations beforehand, we would have less to worry about. People go to such events as a form of stress relief, entertainment and to meet their favorite artists. Instead, here we are worried,

     The Second Amendment to the United States constitution 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”(U.S. Constitution). The founding fathers included this in our bill of rights because they feared the federal government might oppress the population if the people did not have the means to defend

The 2012 U.S. population was nearly 314 million. That may lead you to the mistaken impression that everyone is packing heat. In truth, however, the majority of Americans are still unarmed. “In a January 2012 Gallup poll, forty-three percent of Americans said they had a gun in their homes” (Adams, 957). That says how many guns are in the country, and how some of the guns are actually being held by less than half of Americans legally. This shows how important guns are in the American society. Thus, Americans may ask themselves these certain questions when talking about the gun control controversies: Are stronger measures needed to protect society? Do gun bans violate Americans’ Second Amendment rights? If firearms should be more tightly regulated? If it should be legal to carry a firearm in public? How the White House is trying to reduce gun violence? These are some of the questions that are hot topics when talking about the matter of gun control.

Recently, Ohio Governor John Kasich publicly stated that the people of his state are willing to initiate talks to put restrictions on gun ownership (Felscher). Personally, this is the first I’ve heard of a major Republican politician willing to talk about gun control in a long time. The willingness of a political party to soften on their beliefs is promising, as a solution could be reached in the future. However, there is a lot of work to do in order to end up at that desired outcome. One of the most difficult aspects of gun control is taking a stance on it, as there will always be a disagreement involved. For example, If you decided that guns should be legal for self-defense reasons, there will be a counterclaim stating that guns increase the rate of suicide. After reading about the hardlined stances on the topic, I decided that I could only take a tentative stance on the subject without leaning particularly to one side.

One of the most prominent and most used piece of data used in the pro-gun control camp, is by looking at what Australia did with gun control. Remember the data presented earlier in this paper from the CDC. The death rate from firearms in the United States is 10.6 per 100,000 people. According to Reuters, the death rate in Australia from a firearm in 2014 is 0.54 per 100,000 people. To put that number in perspective. 89 people die every day from gun violence in the United States. Only 35 people have died as a result of gun violence in one year

According to the GVA 15 thousand deaths have occurred in 2016 alone due to gun violence. That’s about 41 deaths each day over the course of a year. These statistics are quite baffling. If the U.S. had stricter widespread gun control this number could be drastically decreased. Gun control such as; requiring permits in each state. In states like Texas you don't even need a permit to purchase a handgun as long as you're 18 years of age or older (Durysguns,

The second amendment of the constitution reads, "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. (procon.com). ¨270- 310 million americans own firearms¨ out of the 326,766,748. Many Americans believe that it is their right to keep at least one gun in their home or on

“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” (Jefferson). Many believe that United States as a whole should be limiting gun ownership. However, the United States 2nd amendment was written in the sense that all Americans have a right to own a firearm as an essential liberty to protect from foreign invaders as well as government tyranny. “The Second Amendment protects an individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia, and to use that arm for traditionally lawful purposes, such as self-defense within the home” (Scalia). So, with the more laws that congress, or anti-gun protesters want, will lead to path where we could possibly have our second amendment rights infringed upon leading to a loss of self-protection. With more restrictions on gun ownership, the United States Americans, may see a loss in guns not only used as protection; but even in sporting or hunting purposes. In the United States, Americans should not be subjected to higher gun ownership restrictions, because it infringes on the safety of citizens, strict laws will not prevent criminals from obtaining guns, and many lives revolve around gun ownership for protection and recreation.