Firearms

guilty of an accidental discharge of a concealed firearm in a prohibited area. She was charged with a misdemeanor and was relieved of her position of a school teacher. Accidental discharges of a firearm at a school, sets a very bad precedent for this issue. The attorney of michelle montgomery, who is also a firearms instructor, says “i believe this is a very harsh charge for an accident.” i agree with the attorney because the discharge of the firearm was not intended and no one other than…

a safer world where only military and law enforcement have access to firearms and that they be kept out of the access to the public. With less firearms in the hands of the public, there is less margin for error of those who are untrained and inexperienced with the weapon. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was passed in 1993, in an effort to decrease firearm-related deaths by mandating federal background checks on firearm purchases in the United States and placing a five day waiting…

All guns serve a different purpose, guns have been a part of American history for numerous years. The various types of firearms have many different jobs, take hunters and police officers, for example. Hunters use guns to harvest food, while police officers use guns for law enforcement. The two most commonly used firearms are the rifle and the shotgun, these two firearms are used for a certain goal but the two are different from one another. They differ by the types of bore, the type of…

Introduction Firearms take up a large percentage of crime around the world, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. Gun crime is defined as a crime or offence that is committed with the use of a firearm but there is no set definition as to why they are committed. Firearm legislation are a set of laws and guidelines that surround the topic of gun crime that are put into place by the government to try to control gun crime. From Prohibition to shootings, gun crime has…

have the intended effect that is wanted and that by having them it is just an invitation for sick people to perform their atrocities and leave innocent victims with no way of defending themselves. (Teeple, Thompson, & Price, 2012) The presence of firearms carried by law abiding citizens has been shown to decrease crime in the area that they were allowed to be. One study has shown that, “Allowing citizens without criminal records or histories of significant mental illness to carry concealed…

Guns in America As Americans guns are our pastime, it has given us a way to feed and protect our families for decades (Five 1). Doreen Gonzales believes around the date 1607 the first colonist journeyed onto American soil with firearms (11). Guns have been molded into the American way of life and culture with their constant presence on television, movies, and in the news. There are currently enough guns in the United States that roughly every man, woman, and child could own one. Guns have…

Hungerford Massacre of August 1978 (Leitzel, 2003). This particular incident led to the Firearms Amendment Act that extended the list of banned weapons and increased registration requirements for other weapons. The stringent laws are all to reduce the likelihood of a gun getting into the wrong hands. Police officers in each part of the UK, England, Scotland and Wales have separate licenses for shotguns and other firearms (Casciani, 2010). Before a gun is issued, the British police have to check…

transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms. Gun Control helps the government regulate who has and who can have a firearm. In the United States of America, there are 10.59 gun murders per 100,000 people. This number of murders can be reduced if gun control is strengthened. In the USA there is more mass murders by gun than any other country. The cause of this is that people in the USA don’t undergo proper background checks when purchasing a firearm. If people do not undergo a…

be to look at the laws governing the sale and distribution of firearms. While another way, would be looking at the different companies that make the firearms. Though the role guns play in a capitalist economy can’t be defined just by the laws and manufacturers. You have to look at the results of what happens when a firearm is used in an illegal fashion to see where they are placed in said economy. Some politicians view firearms as an evil that needs to be removed from the public, while…

“ Like most of the nation I am appalled by gun violence in our country and the mass shootings in our churches and colleges. While there is no simple fix, that does not mean we should do nothing. The status quo clearly is not working and people on both sides of this issue cannot simply continue shouting at each other. Nobody wants more mass killings and serious people are going to have to engage in serious discussion.” - Bernie Sanders The correlation between gun control and gun violence in the…