Concealed carry in the United States

they decide to make stricter laws and banned concealed guns by law in these stores. The state of Illinois was given six months to devise a concealed carry law after the United States Court of Appeals ruled there law unconstitutional, in December 2012. After much debate, the government could not change the effect of concealed career weapons in society and they resorted to making gun-control laws stricter. They decided to inflict a law prohibiting concealed-weapons in businesses that make more…

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 article “GUN CONTROL AFTER…

firearms strengthens the country and scares enemies away. An example of how armed citizens provide protect was is in “WW II Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto advised his country’s leaders against invading the U.S., supposedly saying You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass."(Gun Control). Australia has little to no of that scare ability that the US has due to their gun…

bear arms”? Most citizens would agree with the idea,but some would not. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution controls all gun regulation in the United States. The Amendment reads: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed".There are two debates over this amendment.One would say a state law violates the "right to bear arms" the law is unconstitutional and invalid. The other…

campuses will increase the chances that these suicide attempts will end in death. In a study done by the Harvard School of Public Health, states with low gun ownership were compared to states with high gun ownership. The study found that over the course of five years, the states with the higher gun ownership had about two times as many gun suicides compared to the states with the lower gun ownership. This study was “consistent with the hypothesis that the availability of lethal means increases…

presence on television, movies, and in the news. There are currently enough guns in the United States that roughly every man, woman, and child could own one. Guns have constantly been in the headlines with around 22 mass shootings and 20 regular shootings each year, the question now is if gun control is the answer to end all the gun violence (Deadliest 1)? This is the number one controversial issue in the United States…

look at the perceptions of gun carry, on campus. Also, the review looks at what the law says in regards to guns and legislation that has stem because recent tragedy’s. Carrying guns on campus has become a question…

Limited Access: Guns in School Think back to the headlines and media from the following years; 1999, 2007, and 2012. These are all years in which popular school shootings occurred, and shocked the nation. The first shooting that took place was Columbine, followed by Virginia Tech, and most recently Sandy Hook. These are prime examples of the danger that guns can pose to the school environment. It is an unfortunate circumstance when the two worlds collide. Like oil and water, guns and school…

In the United States, there are certain rights that are protected by law but there is also some people that believe that it should not be protected. The second amendment which grants the right to bear arms has been a topic of an ongoing debate of whether or not the government should have more gun control. The two sides have really good point of views. One side maybe want less gun control because owning guns keeps them more secure in case of emergencies, for example: if people are breaking in…

the people of the United States, but will that really help? In a gun free zone in Florida, at a nightclub a mass shooting occurred and 49 people died and 53 were wounded (Crime Prevention Research Center). According to CNN.com, this has been the deadliest terror attack since 9/11. More gun control laws are not the solution because the laws that are in place now are not enforced, if the states enforce the laws than more gun crimes could be avoided. The citizens of the United States will no…