A trending argument for the upcoming Presidential elections is Gun Rights and if they should be stricter. Many recent shooting have occurred over the years and the most recent was last week in California where fourteen people were murdered. Many people want to ban the sale and take away people’s gun rights which is unconstitutional to do. We as American’s have to right to bear arms and defend our selves but people are scared that letting people have guns will cause more shootings and more crime and don’t realize that we need guns to protect ourselves. There are two sides to this argument about guns and gun rights. One side says that guns should be banned in every manner except for police and government use and the other side says that guns
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Big groups like the NRA who have a lot of power and are keeping gun rights where they are now are trying to remove them saying that people should be allowed to carry guns on them and use them at shooting ranges and for self protection. In the states that have the least amount of gun restriction there is a lower shooting rate than the states with more gun restrictions. The NRA has many good points about gun laws and restrictions. They say that, if people had guns during these shooting that the shooters would have ended up dead a lot sooner and less people would have been killed. Waiting for the police to arrive or waiting for the shooter to run out of ammo takes a lot longer than if some one who had a gun on them were to just kill the shooter. The other point they bring up is that in the constitution there is something called the second amendment which 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.” And when gun restrictions are placed the U.S government is taking away the peoples rights. The only reason that they are allowed to do this is because a large group of people support gun restrictions and want to ban guns and the manufacturing of guns all together thinking that the world will be a safer place. The NRA leader said in an article about gun control “Just because some have sought to exploit their rights and kill, why should the government impose further restrictions on innocent
Big groups like the NRA who have a lot of power and are keeping gun rights where they are now are trying to remove them saying that people should be allowed to carry guns on them and use them at shooting ranges and for self protection. In the states that have the least amount of gun restriction there is a lower shooting rate than the states with more gun restrictions. The NRA has many good points about gun laws and restrictions. They say that, if people had guns during these shooting that the shooters would have ended up dead a lot sooner and less people would have been killed. Waiting for the police to arrive or waiting for the shooter to run out of ammo takes a lot longer than if some one who had a gun on them were to just kill the shooter. The other point they bring up is that in the constitution there is something called the second amendment which 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.” And when gun restrictions are placed the U.S government is taking away the peoples rights. The only reason that they are allowed to do this is because a large group of people support gun restrictions and want to ban guns and the manufacturing of guns all together thinking that the world will be a safer place. The NRA leader said in an article about gun control “Just because some have sought to exploit their rights and kill, why should the government impose further restrictions on innocent