Crimes and guns seem to go together like cheese, and crackers. In America there is a law called the 2nd amendment that 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." This allow any American the right to bear arms to help protect themselves, but do they ever wonder why, why, why? Where as in the United Kingdom after the 1997 Dunblane massacre the UK made it illegal to obtain a gun without a shotgun license. So should the Americans follow our footsteps?
There are two sides to gun control, one shown by Firmin Debrander a writer for the New York Times states “Guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name” This is him making clear that if everyone had a weapon then everyone would be afraid to do anything. The other side is that if guns are banned then the people have no way to protect themselves. Both sides have bery good points but allowing every home to be armed has had …show more content…
A reason that American doesn’t have gun control in the arguments made by the “National Rifle Association” is that the reason the US can’t put control on gun right because the “American Blacks are too violent”, but a poll found that “white murder rates are double of the black murder rates”. So they point isn’t valid, but many Americans don’t know this, and it makes them feel that the need to arm themselves to protect them, but is this really true? No they are using African-American population as a scapegoat, and this anger the American that know this to be un-
There are two sides to gun control, one shown by Firmin Debrander a writer for the New York Times states “Guns pose a monumental challenge to freedom, and particular, the liberty that is the hallmark of any democracy worthy of the name” This is him making clear that if everyone had a weapon then everyone would be afraid to do anything. The other side is that if guns are banned then the people have no way to protect themselves. Both sides have bery good points but allowing every home to be armed has had …show more content…
A reason that American doesn’t have gun control in the arguments made by the “National Rifle Association” is that the reason the US can’t put control on gun right because the “American Blacks are too violent”, but a poll found that “white murder rates are double of the black murder rates”. So they point isn’t valid, but many Americans don’t know this, and it makes them feel that the need to arm themselves to protect them, but is this really true? No they are using African-American population as a scapegoat, and this anger the American that know this to be un-