Gun control is a controversial topic to be talked about considering the pros and cons that come along with it. The pros being the control of having a gun in order to have a sense of protection, our right to bear arms and less death rates. On the other side cons being restricting a person to their own personal safety and diminishing personal hobbies such as hunting, and job related activities by not having guns being allowed at all. Guns come with responsibility and consequences that can occur if guns are put in the wrong hands such as school shootings, toddler shootings, also including suicide and death. There should be limitations like the types of guns to not just any gun, but just handguns allowed to be bought, who can buy them and by changing
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The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), is a system made by the US and is controlled by the FBI, in which there is a process of examining a name of a person who is interested in buying a gun where they undergo federal and state criminal records to see if they are ineligible and are possibly unable to purchase a gun. Federal law also puts a stop to the selling of weapons to people who have been convicted of a felony, have a warrant out for their arrest, have used drugs within the past year, were committed involuntarily to a mental institution or ruled mentally incompetent by a judge, are living in the U.S. illegally, have a domestic-violence-related restraining order against them or have a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. People who were dishonorably discharged from the military or who have renounced their U.S. citizenship are also barred from gun purchases. (Goodwin) This background check is handy and accommodating for people everywhere who can live in peace knowing criminals are not given a right to guns because of past errors. This background check should be enforced to the limit and still keep ongoing to ensure the safety of others, but also to prevent inhumane acts done if guns were to be allowed to just …show more content…
Veronica Rutledge, who alongside of her husband is very much familiar with guns as they hunt and practice at shooting ranges. Her husband had the idea to give her a gun for the purpose that it would serve her a sense of protection if she were to ever need it. Veronica had placed the gun in her purse that she thought could conceal her weapon, but was sadly mistaken when her two year old son unknowingly opened the compartment of her purse and shot his mother in the head. Another unfortunate event that happened was the shooting disturbance that occurred December 14, 2012 in Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Twenty year old Adam Lanza who is said by police to have shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, then after drove to his mother 's work where she happened to teach kindergarten. As he entered the school, he had killed six adults, one of them involving the school’s principal and twenty children. This shooting is said to become the second-deadliest in U.S. history. (Steve, Horwitz, Fahrenthold) As much as the husband with good intentions, decided to give his wife a gun for protection and no one would have ever guessed that Adam would grab a gun and decide to kill people, these tragic events could have been possibly avoided if there was limitations put in
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), is a system made by the US and is controlled by the FBI, in which there is a process of examining a name of a person who is interested in buying a gun where they undergo federal and state criminal records to see if they are ineligible and are possibly unable to purchase a gun. Federal law also puts a stop to the selling of weapons to people who have been convicted of a felony, have a warrant out for their arrest, have used drugs within the past year, were committed involuntarily to a mental institution or ruled mentally incompetent by a judge, are living in the U.S. illegally, have a domestic-violence-related restraining order against them or have a misdemeanor domestic violence conviction. People who were dishonorably discharged from the military or who have renounced their U.S. citizenship are also barred from gun purchases. (Goodwin) This background check is handy and accommodating for people everywhere who can live in peace knowing criminals are not given a right to guns because of past errors. This background check should be enforced to the limit and still keep ongoing to ensure the safety of others, but also to prevent inhumane acts done if guns were to be allowed to just …show more content…
Veronica Rutledge, who alongside of her husband is very much familiar with guns as they hunt and practice at shooting ranges. Her husband had the idea to give her a gun for the purpose that it would serve her a sense of protection if she were to ever need it. Veronica had placed the gun in her purse that she thought could conceal her weapon, but was sadly mistaken when her two year old son unknowingly opened the compartment of her purse and shot his mother in the head. Another unfortunate event that happened was the shooting disturbance that occurred December 14, 2012 in Connecticut at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Twenty year old Adam Lanza who is said by police to have shot his mother, Nancy Lanza, then after drove to his mother 's work where she happened to teach kindergarten. As he entered the school, he had killed six adults, one of them involving the school’s principal and twenty children. This shooting is said to become the second-deadliest in U.S. history. (Steve, Horwitz, Fahrenthold) As much as the husband with good intentions, decided to give his wife a gun for protection and no one would have ever guessed that Adam would grab a gun and decide to kill people, these tragic events could have been possibly avoided if there was limitations put in