Federal Assault Weapons Ban

problem, if anything he would cancel the Paris climate deal, and rather support construction for a new oil pipeline to Canada. Our national security is one issue he carries near and dear to his heart, he opposes the ban on assault rifles, and has proposed that the right to carry a concealed weapon should apply to every state, as it is one of our rights. Trump has had his restrictions on the amount this country has spent on NATO, if elected he would void the nuclear deal with Iran, and leave…

own handguns, automatic firearms, or high capacity rifles and prohibited the possession of unregistered firearms. Dick Heller, a special police officer in the District of Columbia, carried a firearm as part of his job. He was granted access into federal buildings with the gun, but the new provision made it illegal to possess in his own home. Along with Dick Heller, five other D.C. residents tried to seek resolution to not being able to have a handgun and challenge the constitutionality of this…

Imagine being a 28-year-old, NFL star, out of Rutgers University, a household name especially in Baltimore. Rushing for 6,000+ yards, with just over 1,000 carries for eight short seasons. Some would classify that as a good start to a career. But, in the blink of an eye it 's all gone. Then the blink of an eye it was over because of the videotaped scandal that exposed himself and the NFL of wrongdoing. This man was the running back for the Super Bowl XLVII Champions, Baltimore Ravens, Ray Rice.…

criminal still wants to own a gun to commit a crime they will find a way. In 1919, Prohibition was marketed as a solution to crime, alcoholism, and violence against women. Supporters believed it was the beginning of a golden age and that the alcohol ban would radically transform society for the good. Just like prohibition, gun control will radically transform American society, only not in the way the supporters want. Rather, the result of prohibition was more alcoholism, the beginning of…

now because of the solemn fact of modern mass shootings. The gun control debate has America in a frenzy; both sides of the political spectrum have extreme views on guns. The left says they want to ban certain types of guns commonly known as “assault rifles.” Some on the right also want a ban on “assault rifles” and gun accessories like “bump stocks.” This conversation has a lot of American gun owners worried. As tensions rise on both sides, a deeper look needs to be taken into the history and…

two major political parties were the Federalists and the Republicans. Federalists were those who had supported Washington’s policies, and the Republicans were those who had opposed his policies. Federalists, however, thought their vision of what a federal republic should be was the more "republican" of the two spirits, and derisively called the Republicans “democrats”. Some Republicans of this era came to see the name as a badge of honor and that is why it is often seen that the term Democratic-…

amendment stood free until 1837 when Georgia tried to ban handguns which congress shut down. The time period between 1920 and 1990 the government was very busy regulating and trying to control guns ( Targeted News Service). Starting in 2007 (Bowman) massacre shooting became more and more popular, leading people to want to control guns rather than the people buying them. C.Which raises questions about the second amendment and the state and federal actions. However, many others in…

In fact, many adults were surveyed by a "Pew Research Survey" and 83% of all adults supported background checks and bans on assault weapons with a high magazine capacity. Banning guns with a high mag capacity could prevent mass shootings because it makes it harder to kill many people at once ("Should more gun control laws be enacted?"). Also, most people like to save money, or…

side arm, crime has declined. Can these things be a mere coincidence? Perhaps, but even if that’s true, it still proves that allowing law abiding citizens to be armed does not increase crime, and suggest that it contributes to lowering it instead (Federal Bureau of Investigation, n.d.). Something else to ponder is where do mass shootings occur? Anyone that has lived long enough, and remembers seeing many of these atrocities unfold in the news, can quickly state that they seem to happen in…

are known as the separation of powers which is “the division of government power across the judicial, executive, and legislative branches” (Bianco 7). The two main branches this paper will focus on are the executive and legislative branches of the federal government, specifically the President and Congress. The President and Congress function on the Madisonian system of checks and balances which are defined as “a system in which each branch of the government has some power over the others”…