Federal Assault Weapons Ban

right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed” (Brooks, 2017). This amendment states that all citizens have the right to bear arms. It was originally created to give citizens the opportunity to fight back against an autocratic federal government. Within the past two decades, there have been increasingly more massacres and school shootings. This year, on February 14, 2018, the deadliest school shooting occurred at Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida. In this…

The Ineffective Gun Control Laws in The United States Compared to other economically similar countries, the United States has one of the highest firearm assault ratings in the world. The longer the US keeps things the way they are the more people 's lives are at risk. Thousands of people die every year due to gun violence, this should be reason enough to change the on going problem. A common argument is “guns don 't kill people, people kill people”. Admittedly people do bear some…

Most people who own weapons do not try to hurt or to injure others just because they have the means to defend themselves. Arguments in favor and against gun control have been a constant battle in the United States of America. The question continues on a daily basis about the gun control controversy, with both sides not able to compromise in order to come up with an agreement that pleases them. Society in the U.S will continue to debate that guns are just a tool to kill innocent people, while…

history in America, there have been struggles of what liberty and rights are given to the people of the land. In the beginning, the Constitution gave the American people the Bill of Rights. The first 10 amendments that protect the citizens from the federal government is the first step of liberties and rights to the citizens of America. But, over time there have been struggles of which the rights belong to in the first place. According to the Essentials of American Government , a civil right is…

Gun control has gain a lot more attention, with all the shootings. According to the Brady’s campaign website “Every day, 48 children and teens are shot in murders, assaults, suicides & suicide attempts, unintentional shootings, and police intervention.” The media is able to broadcast any incident and make it a big deal. With the media always around, gun violence has gained a lot more awareness. With the awareness,…

In today’s world, the newspaper headlines are all about crimes and the government believes that in order to reduce the crime rate, guns should be banned. However, this is not the answer because people need guns for self defense, it has been proven that having more guns diminishes the amount of crimes, and that there has been no gun control study that has proven to be effective. For centuries, guns have done more to benefit people than to disservice them. Colonists having access to guns helped…

forth by the United States Government in an effort to control a growing crime problem was the Violent Crime Control & Law Enforcement Act of 1994. This act, according to the original bill itself, did many things such as banned assault weapons, added more offenses to the federal death penalty, attempted to protect women from domestic violence (Violence Against Women Act, Safe Streets for Women Act, and Safe Homes for Women Act), also it instituted boot camps for delinquent juveniles along with…

firearms--were up 7 percent from the year before, to 181. That makes D.C. 's one of the highest per capita murder rates in the country. If the gun ban is struck down, the District will very likely see an increase in firearms ownership and perhaps a rise in burglaries by criminals trying to obtain guns (Schwartz). Thus we should expect the opposite to happen if the gun ban isn 't struck down and in fact made more stricter. Those rates will decrease due to more gun control laws being enforced.…

world, “an average 88.8 guns owned per 100 people” (Phillips, 2015). Is this high ownership of firearms associated with high crime rate? If it is, would limiting access to firearms lower the crime rate or, “cause an aggressor to substitute another weapon to achieve a desired outcome” (Altheimer, 2010). We need to understand first that, “We don't have the highest crime rate among developed nations, according to that 2012 U.N. survey, but we do have the highest firearm-homicide rate” (Phillips,…

prevented them, the right to carry a concealed handgun is protected by the Second Amendment, and has not actually increased the rates of aggravated assault, while statistically decreasing the amount of crime. Carrying concealed weapons has always been thought of as the actions of a criminal. As a result, states started to ban carrying concealed weapons in public, while still allowing open carry. However, some states, specifically Vermont, have never had any laws…