Argumentative Essay: How Does The Gun Control Debate

This essay will look over the reasoning behind gun control laws and why there are a good thing to have, and it will also include a very interesting disagreement point as well. The current focus on the debate is whether or not the laws would be fair, and whether or not the laws are infringing on our second amendment rights. According to some research 83% of adults are in favor of required background checks for private and gun show sales, and 56% of adults were in favor of banning all assault-style weapons (Context, 2015). A more specific debate issue with gun control laws is whether or not they will be truly effective. In this essay we will be going over the wording of the second amendment, how guns have become progressively more dangerous, and how we need gun control laws to prevent every type of shooting, criminal or not. How does the wording of the second amendment affect this debate? The wording itself is actually under questions in its own rights and it is being debate at whether or not we need to amend our second amendment. The second …show more content…
This statement proves to be a myth, and here are a few others that typically come about when discussing gun control laws. “The bad guys, the criminals, don’t follow laws and restricting more of America’s freedoms when it comes to self-defense isn’t the answer.” -Sarah Palin, “…The challenge with gun laws is that by definition criminals do not follow the law. For example, Connecticut’s gun laws, some of the strictest in the nation, were not able to prevent this atrocity.” -Alex Conant, Marco Rubio’s spokesman. (ArmedWithReason, 2013). These quotes are implying that areas with more gun control laws should technically have more crime. This notion is also connected with the idea of gun free zones and that the only way to stop the criminal is with a good guy with a gun. Here’s a few information points that prove this dispositions