Argumentative “You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don’t enforce them, people are gonna find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It’s not the law-abiding citizens, it’s not the person who uses it as a hobby” (Steele). There are around 100,000 victims of gun violence each year (“Brady Campaign...”). Action needs to be taken so Americans don’t feel unprotected going into a public environment. By tightening gun control laws, America can become a safe place for everyone and keeping guns out of the hands of people tempted to make bad choices. Tightening gun laws is essential for the US to save lives. These violent acts are getting worse; it shows…
Gun Control Every time we flip on the news we see a new story explaining a shooting in Chicago. Drive-by shootings are so common now in Chicago that we barely have time to explain one story without skipping to the next current one. To assume that we do not have a problem with guns in the Chicago/Illinois community is wrong. This is a nationwide problem as we have seen with mass shootings and the increasing numbers of deaths nationwide from gunshot wounds. Just this weekend as I began to write…
Katrina Herrera Mrs. Clark AP English 3 08 February 2018 Argumentative Essay Final Draft: Gun Control Gun control is one of the most controversial topics in American politics. More than one-third of Americans in the United States own firearms in their households. It is estimated that more than thirty-thousand people are shot each year due to murders, accidents, police intervention, suicide attempts and suicide. Gun control laws are not strict enough for the safety of our society. The purchase…
Gun control Original oratory “No Kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave.”– James Burgh. This quote demonstrates why we should work to work to prevent gun control legislature from passing. Some say that we should embrace gun control in order to protect our self with safe submission. However, we should oppose gun control for 3 reasons. These reasons are that Guns are essential to self-defense, they are…
when it comes to gun control; to either oppose or support gun control. However, gun control falls under a much more complex system of alternatives and policies. The government not only has the ability to abolish guns to a certain degree, but can also make restrictions on which guns citizens can legally own. Thus, there is much more complexity than to simply support or oppose gun control. There are many options available on deciding who can own which guns and under what conditions. In his paper,…
our attention. One of these attention-grabbing topics is gun control. Unfortunately, in todays society, violence and mass murder run rampant in our streets, our businesses, religious institutions, and our schools. When a shooting occurs, political influencers and the media are quick to accuse and throw shade at the second amendment which allows people to bear arms. As one of the most controversial topics in the media, the country is split. People take sides, choosing whether to be on the…
ill people are acquiring firearms without any difficulty and are using them for the wrong reasons mainly because of weak laws that regulate the sale of firearms. Firearm sales in gun shows are not regulated by the FBI and buyers are not required to go through any kind of background checks at the time of purchase. According to a report by the UC Davis Violence Prevention Research Program titled “Inside Gun Shows: What Goes on When Everybody Thinks Nobody’s Watching”, it is reported that more than…
Debate of Gun Control Americans are faced with a huge predicament of violence throughout the nation. Streets have become a place where the innocent are fearful. Women are attacked and raped, teenagers are found dead because of a fight over menial things, and small children are often victims of revenge attacks. Everyone is frustrated and fearful when the news reveals stories like these, and the government tries to implicate regulations to keep the violence low. However, should we strip people of…
Gun Control: Unconstitutional or Constructive? In a nation of differing opinions, a few issues stick out. Gun control is one of them, a widely debated subject punctuated by acts of heinous violence. In an attempt to curb this violence, articles such as “Crime, Deterrence, and Right‐to‐Carry Concealed Handguns”, by John Lott, argue that less gun control would lead to less crime. The other side of the coin argues that more gun control would lead to less violence, and this is the argument that the…
On the 1st October at Oregon's Umpqua Community College, a horrific shooting unfolded that resulted in ten people getting killed. Including the recent gun shooting, there were more several massive casualties by school gun shootings such as the Columbine High School Massacre in 1999, the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, and the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012. The matter of the gun control draws public attention. The President Obama is currently trying to make some changes for gun…