Automatic firearm

Despite the differentiating gun laws amongst states, the majority of US citizens can purchase military grade assault rifles, known as ARs. Different to normal firearms, ARs feature a semi-automatic feature, where one trigger is equivalent to one round of the gun fired from the bullets in the magazine. The Sandy High Elementary School shooting on the 14th of December 2012 was testament to the deadliness of assault rifles. A single…

Banning Firearms “As of December 23, a total of 12,942 people had been killed in the United States in 2015 in a gun homicide, unintentional shooting, or murder/suicide” (Mascia, “15 Statistics That Tell the Story of Gun Violence This Year”). “There were, on average, 16.4 such [mass] shootings a year from 2007 to 2013, compared with an average of 6.4 shootings annually from 2000 to 2006” (Schmidt, “F.B.I. Confirms a Sharp Rise in Mass Shootings Since 2000”). These statistics prove that within…

heavily armed society in the world. U.S citizens own 270 million of the 875 million known firearms” (MacInnis). For the United States to not even be the biggest or most populated country in the world and still knowing we own the most firearms is unfortunate. Our society isn’t near as safe as people want it to be. There has always been controversies in America about gun control.…

About half of unintentional fatal shootings are self-inflicted; and friends and family are to blame for most unintentional firearm deaths. According to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the National Physicians Alliance, because our country has the highest concentration of guns this results in nine times the amount of accidental gun deaths and 89% of unintentional shooting…

Control and Prevent (CDC) in 2013 there were over 33,000 deaths by firearms, with the majority of these deaths coming from civilian use. That accounts for more than 17% of all documented injury deaths within the United States. I believe that guns are becoming too heavily relied on as a form of protection. With so much speculation in the media of how much crime takes place today, it seems to me as if civilians are turning to firearms as a means of security. For instance, based on Gallup’s poll on…

In the state of California, possession of automatic firearms, and short-barreled shotguns are prohibited. Some people argue that owning a handgun increases a person's risk of being killed. Others say that guns aren't the problem, the people are. Managing the type of people that are allowed access to guns, through background checks, can reduce gun violence without taking the right to self-defense. Guns laws in California are much more restrictive compared to other states (ScienceNews). For…

government has no right to regulate the guns that they can obtain/the guns that they are allowed to own. However, others believe, for safety issues, that there should be a more thorough process to obtain guns and/or restrictions on the types of firearms that citizens can possess. The recent Oregon shooting has rekindled the debate of gun control, many advocates of both sides of the issue have recently started making statements. Some suggest that gun control should not be expanded because it…

Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was adopted on December 15, 1791 (“Assault Weapons”). The interpretation of the the 2nd Amendment -”the right to bear arms” -is constantly being scrutinized. In the 1950’s as survey reported that “at least one firearm has remained fairly constant at just under…

America is killing their children. It is not okay to give teachers the responsibility of carrying a firearm especially since there have been 12 school shooting in the USA alone. Schools in America need stricter gun laws. The president of the USA proposed to give teachers the option of carrying firearms; America’s future is at risk. The goal of a teacher is to educate, teach their kids. Educators are there to teach, not to shoot. In order to end shooting and gun use, they have to be limited.…

on those accidents. Permits are also required for concealed carry for pistols. More people should take advantage of the programs and classes to become more informed and assist with safe handling of guns, adults need to be more careful with their firearms and keep them out of the hands of children. There is also a huge lack of respect for law enforcement because the media reports on things they do wrong instead of the things they do to assist others and keep the public safe. The media needs to…