Gun Control Case Summary

out any of the modern guns as well as the guns that were around when the constitution was made. Another important court case is United States V. Masciandaro. This case is important to the Second Amendment. The case is about carrying a concealed weapon in plain view, a young man and his girlfriend where visiting a state park in Virginia. One of the park police officers noticed that their truck was not parked correctly in between the lines and got out of his vehicle to examine Masciandaro’s truck and when he did he noticed the gun, and called for backup (Halbrook). This case talks has to do with having a load gun in the car. The Second Amendment allows the citizens of the United States to have guns. The Virginia law at the time did not allow …show more content…
The different laws set in place are to protect its citizens. For New York State, the Safe Act is the newest attempt to help prevent massive shootings. The Safe Act was pushed through legislation by governor Cuomo on January 15th and after that, the Safe Act became an active law (Safe Act). The New York State Safe Act was made after the massive shooting in Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Act was made to make New York safe by minimizing gun violence through common sense and reasonable reforms, and the act makes it harder for felons to obtain guns (SAFE Act). According to Governor Andrew Cuomo, "The SAFE Act stops criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from buying a gun by requiring universal background checks on gun purchases (NYSAFE).” In theory the Safe Act was put into place to protect the citizens of New York State. This act does not take into count the criminals, and the mentally that already have guns in their homes before this act was put into place. The New York State Safe Act put in new restrictions for gun dealers. “By conducting those background checks, dealers can play a vital role in protecting the public by making sure guns don’t fall into the wrong hands” (NY Safe). This gun law is not constitutional because in the second amendment it does not say that you can limit who owns guns and who does not. This law is more to protect the citizens which is a good but, it goes against the basic constitutional rights of …show more content…
Even though the laws are unconstitutional they do protect the citizens effectively. The New York State Safe Act makes Kendra’s law stronger. This makes it so that people who live with a mental illness and do not take their medicine be able to get treatment with getting committed to a psychiatric facility (Wolf 859). This means that the people suffering can penalty receive treatment. According to Wolf, “Without proper funding, the expansion of Kendra’s Law it is unlikely to be implemented successfully” (860). Without the funding there is not a good chance that this outpatient system will work. Which means these people will and cannot get the treatment that they should receive. People with mental illness who do not receive their treatment cannot make the right or ethical choices that a person without a mental illness can. This law was put into place after a girl named Kendra Webdale was pushed onto the tracks at a subway station in Manhattan were she died, the man that pushed her was named Andrew Goldstein who had schizophrenia and he never took his meditation that day (Watnik). This law was put into place to help make sure that people who have a mental illness and tendency not to take their meditation they can receive the proper treatment. The new laws that Safe Act put into place are an attempt to make New York safer. One of the new aspects