Texas Law states that “a person can also shoot someone they if they reasonably believe deadly force is necessary to prevent someone else from trying to kill or seriously injure them, or there is the threat of certain crimes such as sexual assault or aggravated kidnapping” (Schwaller, 2015) This was a law set to protect what one considers valuable, whether it be his or her own families or even just to protect oneself from harms way. In 2007 there was a man who saw his neighbors’ house being broken into and saw the assailants fleeing the home. The man then proceeded to call 911 to inform them he intended to shoot the burglars should they not stop fleeing. He shot both assailants and a year later he was acquitted.…
Seemingly guns can create both a positive and negative effect. While many citizens are against having guns at a moment’s notice, guns are serving as a protection for our country. People are not paying attention to the issues, that guns allow safety for many and ensure that everyone is given what they deserve. As an interviewer, one questioned was asked to a high school student Harmanpreet Kaur which was concerning, the importance of allowing Americans to keep guns for self defense, goes beyond and creates negative effects in the country.…
Having a gun can help keep the people of America and their family safe. If someone breaks into a person of Americas’ house trying to hurt them or their family. If a wild animal breaks into a person of America’s house having a gun would be the best option so you don’t have to get close to it.…
Gun fire rained down on the crowd. Everyone was running around trying to find safety. It was a war zone. People started dropping left and right. Blood was making pools in the field.…
Are Gun Control Laws Necessary in the United States? The United States has approximately 325 million guns in the population. This high number almost translates to a ratio of one gun per person. The United States has also witnessed several fatal incidents where shooters used these firearms to kill innocent civilians.…
Americans Need Gun Control In America there are debating issues about gun control. Most of issues are by humans, such as human trafficking, corruption, gun violence, and drugs. In the United States of America, gun violence has become a big issue because of so many recent tragic incidents. There is a higher rate of death (in the U.S.A.) related to gun violence than any other developed country.…
Gun Control does not prevent Gun Violence Gun control is a very controversial topic especially in today's society; whether gun control is good or bad is a very talked about subject especially when it comes to the United States. This is a very touchy subject because guns are a part of a lot of people's daily lives. People that are anti gun control believe that no one should be able to put any restrictions on guns. They believe that people should be able to buy a firearm just like a pair of boots or a tool. They also believe that if you take firearms away from the law abiding citizens that just leaves firearms in the hands of people that don't abide by the law and leaves them defenseless.…
This Generation of society has no boundary on privacy, with social media and connecting through technology more, It is much easier for private/personal information to get out and into the wrong hands. According to Boonsri Dickinson, a researcher for ZDNet states that “The popular social media feed Facebook, got three clever criminals in New Hampshire a lot of loot. They checked on Facebook to when people weren't home, and being the holiday season leaving their incoming gifts vulnerable. Just after 18 homes they accumulate $100,000-$200,000 dollars in stolen goods”(Dickinson) . All because people allowed themselves to be vulnerable!…
Let me start out with the fact that you don’t try to add to a problem to solve it. This means that you don’t want to add another problem when you are trying to solve one. America should have a gun control for those who have criminal records, and to stop killing innocent adults and children. America should have a gun control for those who have criminal records. For instance, criminals do not have enough of what they had done in the past on making others suffer.…
Guns are powerful. Not only in how much damage they can do to you with just one bullet fired, but even the presence of a gun can send any man, saint or criminal, running. Guns can be used as a form of offense and defence. They can protect our society, more than they damage it. Although some believe that gun control should further restrict the selling of firearms, they actually shouldn’t because they can be used as a form of defence, and citizens have the right, stated in the second amendment, to keep and bear arms.…
Gun Control Is gun control helpful or hurtful to citizens? “According to Alpers, gun facts, in America, 22% of Americans own one or more guns. This is highest total in the world”. In the second Amendment, it is the right for people to carry guns (Gun violence 2002). The state governments can not forbid people to keep and bear arms.…
Every nation has a range of obstacles that they must face, and naturally each nation has a different priority. Some nation’s must deal with immigration, health care, and terrorism or violence. For the United States of America some topics are immigration, the current presidential election, school shooting’s, and gun control just to name a few. One big political issue is gun control, the aspect of establishing more rules, trying to minimize the quantity of gun usage, and establishing gun safety. The United States is currently suffering from too much gun violence.…
Gun safety is about creating good habits that apply the four rules first established by Lt. Colonel Jeff Cooper, and then continually ensuring those habits adhere to the rules. Weapon safety is the biggest concern in the America. Throughout history safety for weapons have been made and a lot are still be used, Efforts to make guns safer with technology are not new. Safeties can generally be divided into subtypes such as internal safeties (which typically do not receive input from the user) and external safeties (which typically allow the user to give input, for example, toggling a lever from "on" to "off" or something similar). Sometimes these are called "passive" and "active" safeties (or "automatic" and "manual"), respectively.…
62% of the 31,000 deaths caused by a gun are suicides (Cornell 2). According to Arthur L. Kellerman, MD, “residents of homes where a gun is present are 5 times more likely to experience a suicide than residents of homes without guns” (A Case for Gun Control). I have experienced the effects of suicide within my own family. One month ago, my cousin Marisa committed suicide. She was 26 years old and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia a few years prior to the tragic incident.…
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.…