More than one hundred thousand people are involved in a shooting each year in the United States of America. (irrelevant). Gun control has become a major topic in the last couple of decades in America. It’s a very controversial issue around the world, in communities, and in some families. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This this means that every American has the right to have a gun, felon or not. Or does it? The Second Amendment is interpreted in several ways. Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean of the UC Irvine School of Law, interpretation is that it applies only to those serving in the Military. John Eastman, former Professor of Chapman University School of Law, interprets the law that owning a firearm is a
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According to a study conducted by Cornell University Law School in 2014, felons still get their hands on firearms due to loophole sales, private sellers, and theft. According to the study the top five States with Felons in possession of a firearm are Missouri, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois. Of all the offenders 98.2% were male and the average age was 33. 90.8% were American citizens. 95.6% percent of these were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. The average sentence length for the offenders was 75 months. Felons with multiple convictions were sentenced on an average of 180 months. 10.3% were convicted under the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Armed Criminal Act of 1984 is a United States federal law that provides sentence enhancement for felons who commit crimes with firearms, if convicted of certain crimes three or more times. Jeffery Swanson, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University said, “We’re not going to live in a world where we don 't have angry young men, but we don 't need to give them easy access to
According to a study conducted by Cornell University Law School in 2014, felons still get their hands on firearms due to loophole sales, private sellers, and theft. According to the study the top five States with Felons in possession of a firearm are Missouri, Texas, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois. Of all the offenders 98.2% were male and the average age was 33. 90.8% were American citizens. 95.6% percent of these were convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. The average sentence length for the offenders was 75 months. Felons with multiple convictions were sentenced on an average of 180 months. 10.3% were convicted under the Armed Career Criminal Act. The Armed Criminal Act of 1984 is a United States federal law that provides sentence enhancement for felons who commit crimes with firearms, if convicted of certain crimes three or more times. Jeffery Swanson, a professor of psychiatry at Duke University said, “We’re not going to live in a world where we don 't have angry young men, but we don 't need to give them easy access to