The Debate of Gun Control
Americans are faced with a huge predicament of violence throughout the nation. Streets have become a place where the innocent are fearful. Women are attacked and raped, teenagers are found dead because of a fight over menial things, and small children are often victims of revenge attacks. Everyone is frustrated and fearful when the news reveals stories like these, and the government tries to implicate regulations to keep the violence low. However, should we strip people of their rights to own guns and perhaps leave them defenseless? Or should we allow guns to play a major part in public/personal safety?
With the upcoming elections, the question of gun control has revived into a hot topic among the American population …show more content…
Clinton is pressing the gun control limit, according to her husband Bill Clinton, yet she won’t back down from her argument to fix the “Charleston Loophole” which states that gunman received his weapon only because it took longer than three days for his background check to be completed. She clearly wants extensive background checks and certainly new forms of controlling the flow of guns in the public market. For some of Clinton’s followers, she’s in the clear. Trump, interestingly enough, opposes general gun control but roots for a longer waiting period and banning assault weapons. It seems he remains neutral on the subject and chooses not to speak openly about it, yet on other occasions applauds for an announcement of gun control reform. Still, do the beliefs of our two leading candidates provide enough information on how they’re willing to enforce their …show more content…
Background checks are important, but how can they interfere with a person’s rights? Most teenagers have done things that are on their record permanently, so can a past mistake still impact your availability to a gun when you’re older? Also, how do you determine a psychopath and a sane person? What tests would you do to ensure that the person you are handing the gun to won’t kill anybody? Everybody’s brain is different, so how can a psychological evaluation help our society? Furthermore, how long will the evaluations and background checks take? By the time the person has the permission to have an arm, anything can happen. Can gun control laws be an invasion of privacy as well, provided that background checks allow the government to see all your information? And does gun-control laws give too much power to the government and does it let them have access to detaining all guns from American citizens? Could it also be possible that gun control laws are racist? Current gun control laws are mostly aimed at inner city, poor, black communities who are perceived as more dangerous than white communities. Charles Gallagher, the Chair of Sociology at LaSalle University, stated that some gun control laws are probably based on racial fears: "Whites walking down Main Street with an AK-47 are defenders of American values; a black man doing the same thing is Public Enemy No. 1." In the late 1960s, gun control laws were created
Americans are faced with a huge predicament of violence throughout the nation. Streets have become a place where the innocent are fearful. Women are attacked and raped, teenagers are found dead because of a fight over menial things, and small children are often victims of revenge attacks. Everyone is frustrated and fearful when the news reveals stories like these, and the government tries to implicate regulations to keep the violence low. However, should we strip people of their rights to own guns and perhaps leave them defenseless? Or should we allow guns to play a major part in public/personal safety?
With the upcoming elections, the question of gun control has revived into a hot topic among the American population …show more content…
Clinton is pressing the gun control limit, according to her husband Bill Clinton, yet she won’t back down from her argument to fix the “Charleston Loophole” which states that gunman received his weapon only because it took longer than three days for his background check to be completed. She clearly wants extensive background checks and certainly new forms of controlling the flow of guns in the public market. For some of Clinton’s followers, she’s in the clear. Trump, interestingly enough, opposes general gun control but roots for a longer waiting period and banning assault weapons. It seems he remains neutral on the subject and chooses not to speak openly about it, yet on other occasions applauds for an announcement of gun control reform. Still, do the beliefs of our two leading candidates provide enough information on how they’re willing to enforce their …show more content…
Background checks are important, but how can they interfere with a person’s rights? Most teenagers have done things that are on their record permanently, so can a past mistake still impact your availability to a gun when you’re older? Also, how do you determine a psychopath and a sane person? What tests would you do to ensure that the person you are handing the gun to won’t kill anybody? Everybody’s brain is different, so how can a psychological evaluation help our society? Furthermore, how long will the evaluations and background checks take? By the time the person has the permission to have an arm, anything can happen. Can gun control laws be an invasion of privacy as well, provided that background checks allow the government to see all your information? And does gun-control laws give too much power to the government and does it let them have access to detaining all guns from American citizens? Could it also be possible that gun control laws are racist? Current gun control laws are mostly aimed at inner city, poor, black communities who are perceived as more dangerous than white communities. Charles Gallagher, the Chair of Sociology at LaSalle University, stated that some gun control laws are probably based on racial fears: "Whites walking down Main Street with an AK-47 are defenders of American values; a black man doing the same thing is Public Enemy No. 1." In the late 1960s, gun control laws were created