When events as the Virginia Tech shooting and the Colorado movie theater shooting occurred, both made it easy to point fingers at the guns and suggest that the guns killed those people. Yes, a gun was used to commit murder but the person who did the killing was the person behind the gun. In times of crisis it was easy to pick an object as a source of fallacy in the system because it was in our nature to seek the best in humanity. To say that because those individuals had guns, and those guns made them crazy, was a crazy statement in itself. (Gulasekaram, 2010).
A major part of being a responsible gun owner would be safety. The head of a household must be so inclined as to keep one’s family safe from his or her guns as well as from criminals …show more content…
Heller it was decided that guns could be used in self defense and that the Second Amendment gave people rights to own a firearm; those people were then obligated to decide which types of guns fit in the criteria of being useful and safe. For example, automatic weapons have been banned since this case was presented and semi automatic weapons have been argued about for years. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data for 2011 indicated that almost 13,000 people were murdered with a weapon. Of those, 1,700 were killed with knives, almost 500 with hammers, bats, and clubs, and 728 by someone’s bare hands. Only 323 people were killed with rifles of all types (Levy, 2013). This number of deaths was surprising to many people that the statistic was not much higher. It has been argued before and will be argued time and time again that people find a way to destroy themselves. Currently in the United States two of the most important cases in the battle for gun rights are District of Columbia vs. Heller and Mcdonald vs. Chicago. Both of these claim that the right to bear arms is “fundamental”; i.e., it is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in our nation’s traditions and culture. (Levy, 2013) Throughout history we have seen a pattern of violence, whether it be domestic or foreign. If I were going to protect my family, the best way I know how would be to have a firearm in my home. The government may try to take away my guns but …show more content…
Out of all the other laws and amendments that our founding fathers created they chose to place the right to bear arms as second most important. George Washington believed that while people could have property and the protection of a free government, they should have rights to defend what they have. He also believed that the people should not only be armed but also be disciplined in the knowledge of gun safety and to make sure the purpose for needing a gun did not outweigh a moral good (Bailey, 2013). The founding fathers believed that everything they had put into the Constitution was for the benefit of every American. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States said, “The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.” If one was to see a modern day reflection of the ways gun control could go wrong, one needed to look at what Adolf Hitler did. He was able to unarm a majority of the population in Nazi Germany and thus the Holocaust, one of the largest human massacres in the history of the world, occurred. The founding fathers feared this would happen at any time from England and that they would lose the freedom they had found in the United
A major part of being a responsible gun owner would be safety. The head of a household must be so inclined as to keep one’s family safe from his or her guns as well as from criminals …show more content…
Heller it was decided that guns could be used in self defense and that the Second Amendment gave people rights to own a firearm; those people were then obligated to decide which types of guns fit in the criteria of being useful and safe. For example, automatic weapons have been banned since this case was presented and semi automatic weapons have been argued about for years. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) data for 2011 indicated that almost 13,000 people were murdered with a weapon. Of those, 1,700 were killed with knives, almost 500 with hammers, bats, and clubs, and 728 by someone’s bare hands. Only 323 people were killed with rifles of all types (Levy, 2013). This number of deaths was surprising to many people that the statistic was not much higher. It has been argued before and will be argued time and time again that people find a way to destroy themselves. Currently in the United States two of the most important cases in the battle for gun rights are District of Columbia vs. Heller and Mcdonald vs. Chicago. Both of these claim that the right to bear arms is “fundamental”; i.e., it is implicit in the concept of ordered liberty and deeply rooted in our nation’s traditions and culture. (Levy, 2013) Throughout history we have seen a pattern of violence, whether it be domestic or foreign. If I were going to protect my family, the best way I know how would be to have a firearm in my home. The government may try to take away my guns but …show more content…
Out of all the other laws and amendments that our founding fathers created they chose to place the right to bear arms as second most important. George Washington believed that while people could have property and the protection of a free government, they should have rights to defend what they have. He also believed that the people should not only be armed but also be disciplined in the knowledge of gun safety and to make sure the purpose for needing a gun did not outweigh a moral good (Bailey, 2013). The founding fathers believed that everything they had put into the Constitution was for the benefit of every American. Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States said, “The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution.” If one was to see a modern day reflection of the ways gun control could go wrong, one needed to look at what Adolf Hitler did. He was able to unarm a majority of the population in Nazi Germany and thus the Holocaust, one of the largest human massacres in the history of the world, occurred. The founding fathers feared this would happen at any time from England and that they would lose the freedom they had found in the United