Should Guns Be Banned Research Paper

Guns have been a way of life in this country for hundreds of years. They have been used from hunting, to self-protection, and to protection of the citizen rights of this country. With the recent mass shootings that has been seen in the United States, there has been an increased push for gun control laws. The thought is, if the country places a ban guns, there will be less shootings, resulting in needless deaths of our citizens. Is there a correlation between guns and the number of homicides? Even with recent mass-shootings, weapon bans are a violation of our constitutional rights, have proven to be ineffective, and targeting the wrong issues. When the United States of America declared their independence from England, a constitution was drafted up, which laid the ground work for the law of the land. One of those laws was the Second Amendment, which 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” (Cornell University Law School). Gun bans that are being proposed are a violation of these rights that our forefathers fought and died for. The Supreme Court has ruled on the meaning of this law on a few occasions.
One of these cases the Supreme Court presided over in 2008, was District of Columbia v. …show more content…
Will a ban on these really save that many more lives or is there a necessity for high capacity magazines? When people hear the term assault rifle, they immediately picture a fully automatic weapon our military will use to protect us and our freedoms. Granted these weapons are built similarly in appearances. These military-style assault weapons that citizens can purchase or own are a semi-automatic firearm. Meaning, the gun will only shoot on bullet for every pull of the trigger, just like a