Concealed carry in the United States

things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”(Thomas Jefferson) During the early years of the united states guns were…

anything about gun-control other than what the media has told you? In 1971 the second Amendment was ratified in the United States Constitution. The second Amendment is there to protect the right of the people to bear arms. It is also there to give the people the means to take back a tyrannical government and rebuild it how the people see fit. Since the early 20th century the United States government has been trying to institute different types of gun control at the federal level. In the current…

Do you own a gun? Or are you in favor of the no gun policy that is being debated in The United States? Gun laws are currently being evaluated and debated due to the large numbers of massacres and murders by guns in the US. All in all, most people can agree that America has too many crime cases relating to guns. Something needs to be done, the question that has everyone stumped, to add gun laws or to take away gun laws? Our Founding Fathers would not have hoped to see America like it is…

Texas become one of the eight states to pass this law, and it came into effect August first at four year universities. Many students who attend community colleges or private universities have the option to opt out, because the campus carry law will not go to effect for them until 2017. This law is very controversial, and many students worry about their safety. Campus carry is for any student who is twenty-one and older, and has a concealed handgun permit, and also has passed a classroom course…

and closer to the forefront to the American people. The United States of America was founded and has incessantly evolved as a free society. Despite that fact, there is still that a great fear of a dictatorial government that encourages the idea that a gun is needed for safety and protection. This same concept furthermore explains why there are over 250 million guns in our society. Both students and teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons on school, especially and of course, on…

right for all Americans to own a weapon; for this reason it is necessary for the government to establish gun laws in order to limit people 's use of them. The use of gun control has, and continues to be used for the protection and safety of the United States citizens. Experts and journalists in this field believe that the use, and increase in gun control is necessary to maintain the safety of those who live in America. A study conducted by the Center of Disease Control and Prevention found, that…

Gun Control Aids Criminal Acts With there being nine guns for every ten people in the United States, some people say that guns are too readily available to the public. Yet less than half of the crimes committed in the country are guns involved. Even though guns are dangerous and are used to commit crimes, crime will not stop due to the ineffectiveness of gun control. Crime will adapt no matter the laws that are put into place. According to a study on mass shootings by The Washington Post, it was…

Introduction Handguns have played a huge part in shaping America mainly in the 20th century, also before this time period. My opinion is that they have played a much more negative roll than a positive one. This topic is a very difficult subject to speak on because so many people have different thoughts on it. Handguns, I would say they are in a way an epidemic, as I will present later. Guns kill many people over the course of a year in America let alone in the entire world. Handguns grew…

There are many pressing issues in the United States today. These vary from gun control, to same sex marriage, health care, and legalizing marijuana. Some think Americans should have privilege of direct democracy to vote on these issues, but would a national referendum be necessary for these issues? Depending on what you are talking about, I do believe a referendum would be necessary. For example, the United States government has run into some problems on whether or not gun control would be…

SHOULD GUN CONTROL LAWS BE MORE STRICT? Should Gun Control Laws Be More Strict? Many individuals do not believe that carrying a gun will make them safer; On the contrary many of them carry both openly and concealed and society is better for it. One could ask why society would be better for it? There are many answers someone could provide, but one of the most logical ones would be "If they did somehow manage to take away legal weapons? That would still leave criminals happily armed"…