District of Columbia v. Heller

Are Gun Control Laws Necessary in the United States? The United States has approximately 325 million guns in the population. This high number almost translates to a ratio of one gun per person. The United States has also witnessed several fatal incidents where shooters used these firearms to kill innocent civilians. As such, the entire situation begs the question whether gun control laws are necessary to curb gun-related violence. The situation has developed into a national issue with people…

the many conflicts that are argued daily throughout America, the debate over whether the right to have ownership of a gun should or should not be taken away or restricted is one that has been discussed in Supreme Court cases such as in District of Columbia v. Heller, and researched by numerous professors and organizations (Greenhouse) . Many people decide who they are going to vote for in the presidential election based off their position regarding the second amendment. The right to have…

The Second Amendment: America holds a rich history of firearms. One can even claim that without firearms America would not be what it is today. Currently America has never been more split on the idea of firearm ownership. With a variety of pros and cons for Gun Control and Pro-Gun groups both with partisan ties within congress the same questions always appear: Who is entitled to the Second Amendment? Is there a real correlation between gun control and controlling crime? Where does our nation…

The second amendment of the constitution states, "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." The second amendments mean that: to keep the country free from too much control, the people are allowed to keep and use their firearms. Under any circumstance this right shall not be violated .Since it’s our right why is there so many limitations and restrictions. If it’s our right to have fire arms…

America is a very passionate about our rights. Our Constitution created the Bill of Rights in order to give the people more power. Many Americans would find it shocking that there is some debate on how to read this amendment. America’s founding father intentionally used some ambiguous language because they knew that these laws may change (Freitag, personal communication). Spizer (201) claimed the second amendment is popularly misread as quoted by Robert A. Rutherland “(along with the Third,…

this claim. In the course of recent years, support for firearm control has diminished significantly and contentions mounted by defenders of the privilege to remain battle ready have picked up energy. Since the 2008 Supreme Court case District of Columbia v. Heller, decided that the Constitution secures a singular's entitlement to own a firearm for individual use Congress has voted down all proposed gun legislation. In July 2010 the Supreme Court decided that this applies to state and local…

With mass shooting such as the one at Umpqua Community College in Oregon becoming a regular occurrence, we must ask ourselves why people resort to gun violence instead of finding other ways to solve whatever problem they may be facing. The ATF estimates that there are 300 million guns in circulation while 20 years ago it was around 200 million. The GSS estimates that one-third of households have guns (Mantel 237). Every year, on average, 32,000 people die and 74,000 people suffer injuries…

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