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…
The effects of gun control I feel could be very dangerous. Taking away the right to bear arms could endanger defenseless families when an armed criminal breaks into their house. Taking firearms off of the legal market doesn’t mean that they still won’t be bought and sold illegally. An example of something that is illegal but widely bought and sold would be drugs. They are highly illegal but the demand for them is through the roof. So then, when the common law abiding citizen cannot buy a firearm…
Being able to use gun for self-defense or protection is a right which can 't be denied to U.S citizens; however guns are not the only weapons available to serve the same purpose. Since guns are made to kill, one should consider alternative measures of protection out of respect for life. The statement made by Hasselstrom’s in her paper, is somewhat valid, but comes off as a very one sided opinion if regards to “gender equality” claiming that barring arms makes men and women equal. There is a…
herself in the leg. No one was injured except for her, but next time how can we be sure? In today’s society, guns are the center of controversy. If guns are being argued that they shouldn’t be legal in any setting, why would we promote them in an educational setting with the youth and future of America at risk every day? That is why we negate the resolution that teachers should have the right to conceal and carry firearms on school grounds. For my first point, I assert that guns in school take…
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…
Gun Control not Gun Prevention Guns are the tools to reinforce safety and to safeguard the lives of many people. Although in modern America there is always a conversation somewhere regarding gun laws. Those involved in the chatter are often quite passionate about their feelings on the issue. Guns will always be around, either in the hands of criminals or the freedom fighters of America. Gun ownership should be controlled not stopped. People should be background checked for criminal or…
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,…
American’s have the right to own a gun by following the right procedure in the United State. The gun control have been discussed in the last few years. The hot topic discussing that should we banned the right to own a gun as functional protection. Few people who owns a gun have few committing of violent crimes which like school shooting, suicide, and homicide in America. As the number of gun holder increasing, the number of death rate increasing every year. For this horrible issue, there are…