Can Banning Guns Brighten our Future?
Twelve Thousand. This is how many people die due to firearms every year in the U.S alone. Two Hundred. This is how many people injured by guns in the last five years. 19,827,376. This is how many guns sold to civilians in the past year. Gun control is one of the most controversial issues in the U.S We hear many stories over the news about mass shootings in schools, churches, banks, etc. Most people tend to disagree on restricting guns because it gets in the way of the second amendment but according to Former Justice John Paul Stevens, “the Framer’s single-minded focus in crafting the constitutional guarantee ‘to keep and bear arms’ was on military use of firearms, which they viewed in the context of service in state militias”. There is nothing said about individual right to bear arms in the second amendment, so they don’t really have a valid argument. Others think restricting guns is an essential step which we should take to reduce the crime rate caused by guns. To most people guns are set out to be a defense weapon. This essay will explain some of the many reasons why banning handguns will reduce crimes, better the economy and eliminate terror. …show more content…
They could also get rid of any feeling of terror caused by guns. Guns are one of the most dangerous weapons and we as a nation are not dealing with them as cautiously as we need to be. Sure, we can put more and more restrictions are guns and make people go through background checks repeatedly, but we cannot always guarantee that guns would not show up in places that they aren’t suppose to be like schools, churches, mosques, etc. Banning guns could also help people realize that there are non-violent approaches to situations and it could help people think more positively and create a brighter future for our
Twelve Thousand. This is how many people die due to firearms every year in the U.S alone. Two Hundred. This is how many people injured by guns in the last five years. 19,827,376. This is how many guns sold to civilians in the past year. Gun control is one of the most controversial issues in the U.S We hear many stories over the news about mass shootings in schools, churches, banks, etc. Most people tend to disagree on restricting guns because it gets in the way of the second amendment but according to Former Justice John Paul Stevens, “the Framer’s single-minded focus in crafting the constitutional guarantee ‘to keep and bear arms’ was on military use of firearms, which they viewed in the context of service in state militias”. There is nothing said about individual right to bear arms in the second amendment, so they don’t really have a valid argument. Others think restricting guns is an essential step which we should take to reduce the crime rate caused by guns. To most people guns are set out to be a defense weapon. This essay will explain some of the many reasons why banning handguns will reduce crimes, better the economy and eliminate terror. …show more content…
They could also get rid of any feeling of terror caused by guns. Guns are one of the most dangerous weapons and we as a nation are not dealing with them as cautiously as we need to be. Sure, we can put more and more restrictions are guns and make people go through background checks repeatedly, but we cannot always guarantee that guns would not show up in places that they aren’t suppose to be like schools, churches, mosques, etc. Banning guns could also help people realize that there are non-violent approaches to situations and it could help people think more positively and create a brighter future for our