The Argument In Favor Of Gun Control

Gun Control in America has been argued back and forth for decades past. On one side it is strongly believed that the Second Amendment suggests that individual citizens have a constitutionally protected right to own a gun and protect themselves. These individuals believe that gun control laws do not in fact reduce gun violence. On the other side it is said if Gun Control laws are enacted there would be less gun and school violence. Also, it would be harder for criminals and juveniles to obtain a firearm. Both sides have very valid arguments and historical evidence to back their positions on within this debate.

Countless opinions have been broadcasted on national news media regarding what society ought to do about gun control. This controversial topic sparks many heated debates with people of either position reluctant to compromise. Gun supporters claim that the proposed gun laws infringe on their constitutional right to bear arms. Conversely, others believe that restricted gun access would cause gun violence to decrease. Regardless of what side one stands on, with the increase in gun violence, it is safe to say that something must be done.

The Gun Control issue has sparked major controversy in America today. People who support gun control feel that guns are the reason for the soaring crime rate in our country. I disagree with the supporters of gun control. I feel that because of the black market, violent criminals being released from prison early, and the need to ensure personal safety, stricter gun control will have very little impact on violent crime in America.

One important issue that has raised over the past two decades is the gun control debate, whether gun control is a real solution to decrease the violence in the country or not. While some groups defend that restricting the laws regarding to gun possession, will decrease the statistics of gun murders in the country, other groups pro-gun rights not only sustain these measures will not make any significant change on those numbers but also, these measures attempt to violate the second amendment which allows people the right to possess arms.

Gun control laws should regulate production, distribution, ownership and use of firearms by civilians. Gun control laws are not intended to dispossess law abiding citizens of licensed firearms but to intervene on reckless use of firearms that cause harm to the public. Gun control should also make it difficult for criminals to access firearms. Armed civilians have in many instances deterred acts of crime from being instigated by scaring away criminals. Nonetheless, gun laws can only be described as immensely lax. This essay seeks to argue for the enactment of strict gun control laws by highlighting the dangers posed by guns in the hands of members of the public.

The correlation with handgun ownership and the amount of suicides every year is a highly debated subject. A majority of suicides in America were decided on impulse (less than five minutes of thought) rather than non-impulsive. With this in mind, the quickest way for a person to commit suicide is with a gun. Gun control advocates believe that having guns present in a household increases the risk of suicide. “There are at least a dozen U.S. case-control studies in the peer-reviewed literature, all of which have found that a gun in the home is associated with an increased risk of suicide. The increase in risk is large, typically 2 to 10 times that in homes without guns, depending on the sample population (e.g., adolescents vs. older adults) and

Imagine a typical day in a small suburban town in southwestern Virginia. It’s around 9:00 am, and you are in your French class. Then, all of a sudden, you hear banging noises coming from outside your classroom. This is the true story of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University shooting in April 2007 as told by Colin Goddard. Goddard was shot four times by the gunman: three bullets to the hip and one bullet to the shoulder. He still carries three bullets with him today and has a titanium rod in his body. The shooter had a history of mental illnesses and should not have qualified to purchase firearms. However, due to ineffective and inefficient gun control laws, the shooter was still able to purchase weapons. The United States

The issue of gun control is one of the hottest topics in the U.S. today. Although it is widely discussed whether citizens should own guns, the founding fathers of our country understood that the right to own and bear arms is a fundamental right and restricting them infringes on the 2nd amendment, which was put in place to protect U.S. citizens. Gun control need to be less strict for the welfare of the U.S. crime rates. Although guns need to be less monitorized some weapons such as military grade assault rifle cannot go unchecked. For the sake of the U.S. gun control needs to be weaker because it’s proven that ownership of guns does not increase crime but scares away criminals, control over firearms denies self-defense, yet, people that are pro gun-control

There has been an ongoing debate on whether gun control laws should be passed or banished. Citizens throughout America have multiple different reasoning behind the laws of gun control, or no gun control. I personally do not have an opinion on this matter, and was very intrigued when reading about the different point of views. There were two completely different articles I read, one was opposing gun control and the other was pro gun control. E.J. Dionne Jr.’s article “How America can free it’s self from guns” published by The Washington Post was pro gun control, he expresses what actions should occur to prevent the number of suicides, homicides, and accidental deaths from occurring. E.J. Dionne Jr. gives lots of real life situations that have

Some of the rational arguments for gun control are popular with the public. For example, Hilary Clinton responds to the multiple mass shootings that keep occurring saying, "It happens every day, and there is so much evidence that if guns were not so readily available, if we had universal background checks, if we could put some time out between the person who is upset because he got fired or the domestic abuse or whatever other motivation may be working on someone who does this — that maybe we could prevent this kind of carnage." The rational opinions suggest that because mass killings are not ending more gun control laws are needed, like universal background checks for guns. They feel this may decrease killings.

“Any society that will give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both ”. This Benjamin Franklin quote is saying that we should not give up a constitutional right for security that won’t even come, and could be directed towards gun control. The circumstances and end results of the demonstration are the subject in this paper.

    “The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of it’s own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, it can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” (Jeff Cooper, Art of the Rifle) Placing restrictions on guns is causing more violence in the United States. Americans purchase these weapons as protection for themselves and their families. Gun control will not prevent hate crimes or terrorist attacks. With that being said, how are these terrorist being equipped with such powerful weapons when they enter the states? How easy is it to obtain any firearm in the United

In his article “Trust the people: the case against Gun Control.” David B. Kopel(1988) says that we should control guns by applying laws and policies that affect on the owner to reduce the crimes and violence because it is like forbidding alcohol to lowest the number of driving accidents due to drinking. The reasons that the author is talking about is banning guns to reduce crimes and enforcing gun bans.

Gun control, or the lack thereof, causes a really big discussion. On one side you have the people that say “no guns!” and people that hunt for game and whatnot. There is, and in my opinion, always going to be a big disagreement on gun control. It is that way because there are lots of people that have different opinions.

On a practical level, gun owners argue that weapons are actually making the society safer. They are giving the people the power to protect themselves and dissuading criminals from victimizing people who might be armed. One against gun restrictions would say that they believe, with a gun, they can stop a mass shooter better than someone with no protection could ever.