Firearm

the Office of National statistics (Barrett, 2016).Violence recorded by police rose by 185,000 offences in the year 2015 and according to the Office of National statistics, knife crime rose by 9% and firearm offences rose by 4%. In the year ending March 2015, there were 7,866 offences in which firearms were involved, a 2% increase compared with the previous year…

black market and the need to guarantee individual safety, stricter firearm control will have next to no effect on vicious wrongdoing in America. Firstly, within the article it states, “ A federal law should be put into place to ban guns.” A proposed elected law to prohibit all weapons would be more successful at incapacitating honest citizens than at incapacitating the lawbreakers who mishandle them. In the event that firearms were banned, the criminals would not stop carrying guns, but the…

the amount of illegal firearms nor will it reduce the amount of crime that takes place with a firearm. This is simply because criminals do not care whether the gun they just purchased was through legal channels or in a dark alley from the back of a van. Not only are gun laws ineffective in reducing guns owned by criminals, but they infringe on the rights bestowed to citizens under the second amendment. Gun control denies citizens their constitutional right to own a firearm, does not prevent…

Virginia Shooting Video Essay As the debate of whether to show the video subsides, new arguments arise creating a huge wave over the social media sites and news stations. Two main issues can be debated when discussing the Virginia shooting video. First, the privacy and dignity of the victims of the shooting are at stake. The second issue is criminal violence, however most news sources seem to make the subject about gun control. It’s not a matter of the video being shown anymore. The video has…

privately owned firearms, we aren’t doing much to prevent them from falling on the wrong hands. According to The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act convicted felons, drug users and abusers, and mentally ill people are prohibited from purchasing or possessing firearms (FBI). But, convicted criminals and mentally ill people are acquiring firearms without any difficulty and are using them for the wrong reasons mainly because of weak laws that regulate the sale of firearms. Firearm sales in gun…

could enable you to find the perfect firearm for your needs. Remember to Ask Yourself a Few Questions Before you begin browsing the shelves of gun stores in New Mexico, you may want to first ask yourself some important questions. Knowing what type of gun fits your needs is an important detail. Even if you don’t know exactly what you’re looking for, make a list…

Gun control, a law that’s extremely strict in certain states while in not so much in others. Some states make their gun laws so loose that it makes Americans ask, are we too generous? Thousands of citizens have died to guns per year either on purpose or by accident. You would think that after all of these casualties the restriction on guns would generally get stricter but no. This has to be changed, America can no longer be one of the highest gun death rate countries and to obtain that we need…

The Effect that Gun Violence has on our Culture Gun violence is a regular occurrence in our culture. This act of violence appears in our homes, schools, churches, and places of business. Firearms have killed more people than terrorism over the past decade. The topic of gun violence and gun control have sparked many debates on how strict one should be when doing background checks on the people who want to own a gun. There has also been a debate on mental illness and the relationship it has…

already, other’s think they need to add more. The second amendment, the right to bear arms, stirs up a lot of debate when discussing this matter. Some schools and even local businesses are beginning to allow teachers and workers to start carrying firearms, with gun education of course. With mass shootings that have happened within the past few years, there has been some controversy between victims being unarmed and easier targets, or needing to take away guns to prevent these things. If we do…

Gun control can be defined as, “any action taken by the federal government or by state or local governments to regulate, through legislation, the sale, purchase, safety, and use of handguns and other types of firearms by individual citizens” (Lee). America has internally debated the issue of gun control for over a century. It continues to be an important and pressing issue today in the United States. There are no set standards for gun control. Each state varies in its laws. For example,…