The Second Amendment to the U.S 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”.There have been plenty of debates on trying to ban all guns in the U.S. There are thousands of laws and regulations in the country that attempt to contain and regulate the use of firearms. No evidence has suggested that gun control regulations established by Congress and the White House have so far been effective. Congress enacted the first three attempts into regulating the spread and abuse of guns with the banning of mail-order handgun sales 1927. Followed by the National firearms Act of 1934 that placed heavy taxing on all gangster related guns. As well as the Federal Firearms Act of 1938 that required handgun registration in States.
Until 1968, Congress and the White House had little to no interest in enforcing …show more content…
The Brady Campaign examines state gun laws by grouping them into categories of a 100-point scale. According to data from Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “approximately 30,000 people die each year in the United States at the hand of a gun, through homicides, suicides and accidents” (Lanza, 2014). In the top 5 highest most strict gun laws in America are, California ranking the highest with 81 points. Followed by New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. “Thus, after controlling for unobservable or hard-to-measure differences across states, like varying enforcement standards for existing laws, or the possibility of differentially exploiting legal loopholes, tougher state-level gun laws are associated with a modest to no reduction in the rate or firearms-related homicides”(Lanza, 2104). This means that although there are states that are tough on gun control laws, there is always a way to obtain
Until 1968, Congress and the White House had little to no interest in enforcing …show more content…
The Brady Campaign examines state gun laws by grouping them into categories of a 100-point scale. According to data from Centers for Disease Control (CDC), “approximately 30,000 people die each year in the United States at the hand of a gun, through homicides, suicides and accidents” (Lanza, 2014). In the top 5 highest most strict gun laws in America are, California ranking the highest with 81 points. Followed by New Jersey, Massachusetts, New York and Connecticut. “Thus, after controlling for unobservable or hard-to-measure differences across states, like varying enforcement standards for existing laws, or the possibility of differentially exploiting legal loopholes, tougher state-level gun laws are associated with a modest to no reduction in the rate or firearms-related homicides”(Lanza, 2104). This means that although there are states that are tough on gun control laws, there is always a way to obtain