Argumentative Essay On Gun Laws

Most people in the world would agree that gun laws are becoming increasingly stricter. Gun laws are put into place to increase the level of protection and safety in community life. As the gun laws become stricter in New York State, more and more people are becoming angered by them. What most people do not realize is that “More than 60 percent of people in this country who die from guns die by suicide” (Sanger). Growing up in Western New York, many households own at least one gun. I grew up learning how to hunt. A normal weekend for myself would consist of learning different gun safety rules for different guns, and seeing who could shoot the smallest target from the farthest away. On January 15th, 2013 the New York State SAFE Act was passed by that New York State legislative. This created an …show more content…
A magazine is a cartridge that holds the bullets in a gun. The SAFE Act limits the amount of bullets that the magazine can hold. You can legally only carry seven bullets in a magazine, this limits the amount of shots you can fire. Starting on April 15th, only magazines will be sold that hold seven bullets in New York State. Before this law was enforced, normal magazines would be able to hold at least ten bullets. For gun holders with magazines that hold ten bullets, they will not be able to fill their magazines. This applies for both citizens, and law enforcement officials. The problem with this Act is that the only people who will follow this Act are Act abiding citizen and law enforcement. This law was put into place to help protect the public. If criminals wanted to use a gun to commit a crime, they would fill their magazines to full capacity and would ignore the gun laws. Criminals that are about to engage in an act of criminal activity are not going to give a second of thought about abiding to the new guns laws that were put into place. If they do think about the new gun law, they will think about how they could have an advantage over