There have been many issues in the past and present about gun control and gun safety. It is now becoming a huge part of our lives and future.We have had many reasons to believe that having a firearm under our control is a good thing and many other reasons to believe that it isn’t. These debates have been an ongoing topic and because of a current event that has happened recently, the oregon shooting, it has drawn much more attention to it. A past topic that has been debated about is the second amendment. Gun laws are both a good and bad thing and it can affect us immensely.
One current event that is a major issue today is the Oregon Shooting. This terrible massacre happened on an early morning Thursday, October second 2015. It took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A twenty-six year old man named Harper Mecer opened fire in his english class. Harper killed nine innocent victims aged eighteen to sixty-seven and severely wounded many others. Mecer later on died in a shootout with the police. Investigators have said to have found thirteen firearms connected to him. They were seven pistols, five rifles and one shotgun. …show more content…
The second amendment protects the citizen's right to bear arms. This means that the people of the United States can own and use a firearm without the government's interference for good purposes. If we didn’t have this law in the constitution none of us citizens would have a gun. The founding fathers that came up with this amendment thought that people in the future would use guns for safety and good reason. Not for fighting, violence and even death. The debate about this is that if we didn’t have this rule maybe there wouldn’t be as much shootings and murders that would
One current event that is a major issue today is the Oregon Shooting. This terrible massacre happened on an early morning Thursday, October second 2015. It took place at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. A twenty-six year old man named Harper Mecer opened fire in his english class. Harper killed nine innocent victims aged eighteen to sixty-seven and severely wounded many others. Mecer later on died in a shootout with the police. Investigators have said to have found thirteen firearms connected to him. They were seven pistols, five rifles and one shotgun. …show more content…
The second amendment protects the citizen's right to bear arms. This means that the people of the United States can own and use a firearm without the government's interference for good purposes. If we didn’t have this law in the constitution none of us citizens would have a gun. The founding fathers that came up with this amendment thought that people in the future would use guns for safety and good reason. Not for fighting, violence and even death. The debate about this is that if we didn’t have this rule maybe there wouldn’t be as much shootings and murders that would