Federal Assault Weapons Ban

If laws had existed to keep these weapons locked up as well as educating parents of children with mental disabilities on the danger of having accessible guns available perhaps, this tragedy could have been avoided. This is the most disturbing case of a school shooting ever in the history…

handguns are effortlessly the best type of self-protection, and a handgun ban removes this alternative from them. Gun rights activists believe that laws against guns are truly laws against self-protection, also firearm free zones are able to be considered as free crime zones. Bans against firearms, specifically handguns, won't prevent bad guys from getting firearms. Gun control will keep a well behaved subject from purchasing a weapon for self-defense. While they might be exaggerating by saying…

Guns Laws Must Be Changed The debate on new gun legislation at the federal and national levels is roaring topic in today’s American society. On one side of the argument, “gun lovers” constantly make mention of the second amendment and how the law protects the rights of Americans. On the other side of the argument, Americans expecting gun reforms argue new and clearer laws will be preferable for the future of America. Nevertheless, on both sides the truth of the matter is in the statistical…

purchase firearms that gun violence will decrease over time. Taking guns away from our citizens is not the answer.Gun control does not deter crime: gun ownership deters crime. A recent ban on Assault weapons did not significantly affect murder rates at the state level. States with restrictions on carrying concealed weapons had higher gun-related homicides. Yet, gun ownership in the United States doubled in the last decade, the murder rate has decreased. The government should not intensify the…

reasonable needs. Everyone deserves the right to protect themselves and have a sense of security. However, protection and security are so easily transformed from a defensive mechanism to an offensive one. Weapons are a major key to satisfying one 's need for protection and security. Unfortunately, those weapons can also bring with them the baggage of further problems. The Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States grants, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the…

number of incidents reported and verified. Seven in a college town, five in an airport, and 49 in a nightclub the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. While the death tolls, places and memorial photos change there is one common characteristic; the weapon chosen. Though to be clear it is difficult to define what is considered a mass shooting and the numbers may reflect this gray area. For example, on February, 25 2016 a gunman shot and killed three people and injured 14 more in Hesston, KS…

shredded 24 hours after they are made. One year after the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, another act was drafted and published. The Violent Crime Control and Enforcement Act of 1994 made a 10 year federal ban on the distribution of new semi-automatic assault weapons. Many of these weapons were used by violent drugs gangs. That Act also limits the number of magazines a person can buy at one time to 10 rounds.…

In an article on CNN, Gregory Krieg writes about Gun control in America: How we got here (Krieg, 2016). On at least 6 different occasions in the last 100 years, lawmakers and the White House have come together to agree on significant overhauls to federal gun laws (Krieg, 2016). President Barak Obama talked in an hour long CNN Town Hall Meeting about his plans to disclose a series of executive actions designed to help prevent gun violence (Krieg, 2016). President Obama continues to try and…

The numbers include everything from homicides and multiple-victim gang assaults to incidents of self-defense and accidental shootings. The organization’s records show that more than 12,600 people have been killed with guns this year, but what its numbers do not record — due to government reporting practices — is a massive hole…

“Independent studies, including a study from the Clinton Justice Department, proved that ban had no impact on lowering crime” (Hills). Most people that are everyday city people or high class people do not carry a weapon and they’re usually the target all the time and they get robbed and scared to death. So most people want to ban guns altogether and it would fix the problem but that’s not the case at all. Banning guns doesn’t mean taking away the guns we have…