“Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, drugs, and booze won’t rid the world of criminality.”-Vince Vaughn. Gun control, a widely renowned useless effort that is used in an attempt to have more strict laws on the possession of firearms. Gun control could compare to the alcohol prohibition. Did the prohibition stop citizens from obtaining alcohol? No, people obtained it illegally. Gun control poses an infringement on an American citizen’s right that was created by the Second Amendment, it has been proven ineffective by many statistics, and it would leave the common citizen vulnerable to an attack by a criminal, who, by the way, would not follow the gun control law anyway. In December of 1791,
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Many gun owners use this guaranteed right to protect their ownership of guns. As it states, we have the right to possess firearms. That can not be infringed upon because the American Jurisprudence protects our rights currently, and it also protects us from any future law that may be considered unconstitutional. “The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed…A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.” (16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256). If gun control were an active law, that would not only pose an infringement upon the Second Amendment right, but also the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,
Many gun owners use this guaranteed right to protect their ownership of guns. As it states, we have the right to possess firearms. That can not be infringed upon because the American Jurisprudence protects our rights currently, and it also protects us from any future law that may be considered unconstitutional. “The General rule is that an unconstitutional statute, though having the form and name of law is in reality no law, but is wholly void, and ineffective for any purpose; since unconstitutionality dates from the time of it's enactment and not merely from the date of the decision so branding it. An unconstitutional law, in legal contemplation, is as inoperative as if it had never been passed…A void act cannot be legally consistent with a valid one. An unconstitutional law cannot operate to supersede any existing valid law.” (16 Am Jur 2d, Sec 177 late 2d, Sec 256). If gun control were an active law, that would not only pose an infringement upon the Second Amendment right, but also the Fourteenth Amendment. The Fourteenth Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States,