The Gun control act has been around since 1968 since John F. Kennedy was assassinated. The act was set to prevent certain people like fugitives from buying guns. This act also required retailers and individuals to obtain a Federal Firearms License. All background checks must be run through the (NICS), witch is part of the FBI. Background checks have brought concern of second amendment rights as well as who should be able to have a gun.…
Gun laws are one of the things that won’t get everyone satisfied. Everyone has a different opinion due to either political views or past experience. Some may prefer the idea of gun control or banning guns is the only to stop deaths. According to the National Survey of Law Enforcement, “many proposed gun control measures – including bans on assault weapon – will be ineffective at reducing violent crime and that legal gun ownership by private citizens would prove a better safeguard.” Although having a strict gun control may have it’s benefits when reducing death, we must use gun control moderately to decrease the amount of illegal activity surrounding guns.…
Gun control has been extremely controversial in society for years. In the essay “Just Take Away Their Guns,” James Q. Wilson argues his view on stricter gun control laws. He writes, “Legal restraints on the lawful purchase of guns will have little effect on the illegal use of guns” (Wilson, 1994, p.125). He backs up his statement with the statistics that 5/6 of handguns used in crimes are either stolen or purchased privately. With this being said, he displays that increasing legal restraints on purchasing guns will have little to no effect on the use of guns to commit crimes.…
Though gun control is a necessary thing, many are against stricter gun control laws. Those opposed to stricter gun control laws would state that gun control would have no effect on reducing crime (Gottieb 1991). However, according to the Huffington Post, which states that with “Higher gun violence tend to have much less stringent gun laws” (States 2013). Having gun laws that put severe restrictions on guns are unhelpful and impractical. The government can make it almost impossible to obtain a…
Society has been split into two over whether or not guns should be banned, but there needs to be a solution where both parties can be happy. Anti-gun advocates present reasoning why guns should be banned. McMahan’s main two arguments of why guns should be banned: one, guns in the community creates a more dangerous environment; and two, the police have less of a power to protect citizens when society has guns (Shafer-Landau, The Ethical Life (EL) 390). McMahan explains that communities are not going to be free of crimes with more people carrying around guns, because criminals will be more prepared, efficient, and quicker to grab and shoot their target (Shafer-Landau, EL 392-392). People with guns will be safer than people without guns, because they do not have a gun to protect themselves.…
On the contrary, we should sell more guns to people for lower prices, no limitations on the ages or purposes, and no certification needed. The more people owns a gun, a more peaceful world it will become. These are couple reasons I propose. First of all, it will significantly reduce the world population. With no doubt, if everyone goes onto the street and kills people, it will definitely reduce our world population.…
Realistically if the public and elected officials do not help solve the problem that is gun violence then there really cannot be a complete solution to this elusive problem. This is why we need not to take guns away but to enforce stronger regulations for…
By restricting the amount of amount of firearms available shouldn’t that control or at least reduce crime? Wouldn’t less guns lead to less suicides? Are these possible of achieving by simply restricting gun ownership, Pro-gun groups don’t believe so. There is a lot of data out there to support each side. America owns a great amount of firearms, and that is no secret to the world, “an average 88.8 guns owned per 100 people” (Phillips, 2015).…
Do you think that there should be more gun control laws? There are lots of arguments going on talking about whether or not they should have more gun control laws. There are a lot of crimes that involve shooting. For example, there have been a couple of school shootings over the last couple of years. There should be more gun control laws in the U.S.…
If guns are banned and the law-abiding citizens are obeying the law, then when the criminals attempt to commit a crime, it is going to be much easier for them to get away with it because the average citizen is not going to have any way to protect his or herself. According to NRA’s mantra, “[the] only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” (Hughes). So, not only does banning guns make it easier for a criminal to commit a crime, but it also disseminates any chance of stopping the criminal from committing the…
Gun Control is Not the Solution Increased Gun Control in the United States is absurd, useless, and unnecessary. In order to increase safety all throughout the United States time and effort must not be spent towards limiting gun owners of their rights. The tragic rash of school, religious, and workplace shootings has turned up the heat on the public conversation about guns. In nearly all of these cases gun laws would not have stopped the shooters from obtaining a firearm.…
Violence in the United States has become one of the largest topics of debate as of recent. Murder has become much too common, and the rate of this crime is only increasing. The solution to violence, more specifically gun violence, is a large point of discussion in the current presidential race. Citizens and politicians alike have very different viewpoints on how this issue should be dealt with, and this disagreement is causing a hindrance to actually solving the problem at hand.…
This was not the original purpose for guns, guns were used to protect what people want to protect. Banning guns would not reduce the crime rate in America, since criminals and psychos obtain weapons illegally anyway, all the government would be doing is preventing citizens from getting guns to protect themselves. If the government decides to ban guns, they…
In recent years, a lot of debate had been going on about the laws pertaining to firearms. Unfortunately, with all of the mass shootings and killings being reported by the media, guns are given a bad reputation. Sadly, many people believe that they should be illegal because they are dangerous and can kill people, but what these people don’t realize is making them illegal will do a lot more harm than good. Guns have created a balance in society and if we were to take them away it could cause a lot of chaos which would result in more crime and more casualties. People deserve the right to bear arms because with proper training one could possibly save his/her life and also protect others.…
I on the other hand, have no doubt that guns themselves are not to blame; after all, they have no ulterior motive. The trouble resides in the people who use them for wrong doing. 1: Gun control will lower crime rates. Guns have gained a very negative reputation in our current society due to the increase in crimes. However, one cannot expect the removal of guns to solve our problems in fact it might just make them worst.…