More Highly Regulated Gun Control is an Effective Method of Reducing Crime
Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. The actual definition of gun control varies greatly around the world, however, this is the most Americanized and generalized definition that I’ll stick with. Even though illegal gun trafficking is undoubtedly tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes like drug dealing and gang crime, Our unalienable second amendment right 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” (Second Amendment). Most everyone whom obtains a gun legally or illegally claim it is for self-defense, and legally …show more content…
Sure, knives and fists are far more common than guns, but guns intensify the violence and increases the probability of death. Another incident, one that I hold very close to my heart, is the Virginia Tech Massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was born in South Korea in 1984 and became a permanent resident of the United States in 1992. This twenty-three-year-old was a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University majoring in English, who massacred thirty-two people on the University’s campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. “Two years before the shooting, Cho was ordered by a judge to seek outpatient care after making suicidal remarks to his roommates and went to a health facility for treatment” (Glock). At 7:15 a.m., April 16, 2007, police are notified there are at least two shoot victims at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a four story coed dormitory on campus that houses approximately eight hundred and ninety-five students, one of those students, being my brother. His first semester in college was also my first underage drinking experience when I was visiting him.
Gun control generally refers to laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. The actual definition of gun control varies greatly around the world, however, this is the most Americanized and generalized definition that I’ll stick with. Even though illegal gun trafficking is undoubtedly tied to juvenile gun violence and other crimes like drug dealing and gang crime, Our unalienable second amendment right 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” (Second Amendment). Most everyone whom obtains a gun legally or illegally claim it is for self-defense, and legally …show more content…
Sure, knives and fists are far more common than guns, but guns intensify the violence and increases the probability of death. Another incident, one that I hold very close to my heart, is the Virginia Tech Massacre. Seung-Hui Cho was born in South Korea in 1984 and became a permanent resident of the United States in 1992. This twenty-three-year-old was a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University majoring in English, who massacred thirty-two people on the University’s campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. “Two years before the shooting, Cho was ordered by a judge to seek outpatient care after making suicidal remarks to his roommates and went to a health facility for treatment” (Glock). At 7:15 a.m., April 16, 2007, police are notified there are at least two shoot victims at West Ambler Johnston Hall, a four story coed dormitory on campus that houses approximately eight hundred and ninety-five students, one of those students, being my brother. His first semester in college was also my first underage drinking experience when I was visiting him.