Gun laws in the United States

Imagine you are asleep in your warm bed at two in the morning when you hear a window break downstairs. Your first thought is your children and their safety. Before leaving your bedroom, you grab your gun. You walk down the hall and tell your children to get under their beds. As you go down stairs and peek around the corner, you see a man holding a knife, stealing your television and other valuables. You know that in a few minutes he will be coming up stairs and you and your family will be in…

For several years the gun control issue has been a controversial topic. An astonishing amount of United States citizens believe that if the gun control is more strict then it would immediately decrease the threat of crime. So many innocent people feel like they have the right to have a gun for protection. Even for fun personal hobbies like hunting. All Americans have a constitutional right to own their own handguns and harsher laws and licensing won’t save lives in an effective way. The 2nd…

society as well as in the state of Texas is that of the questioning of regulation on gun control. With recent tragedies such as the Umpqua Community College Shooting in Oregon, and the Charleston Church Massacre, much controversy and debate has opened amongst fellow Americans on whether or not there should be certain restrictions on gun control. While Texas’s gun control laws are amongst the least restrictive throughout all of the U.S., many citizens in Texas ponder if the state should be any…

place of inhabitance. However, it remains unclear as to whether guns are really used for self-defense. Siegal et al. studies the correlation between stranger and nonstranger homicides in an effort to determine if guns are used as a means of self-defense more often than not. These studies concluded, “[o]ver the entire study period, the average proportion of firearm homicides that were committed by strangers throughout the United States was 21.9%... The average proportion of firearm homicides…

The Gun Free School Zone Act was enacted in 1990, which outlawed the possession of firearms on school grounds and made it a criminal act to carry unloaded firearms within 1000 feet of school grounds. The assassination attempt in 1982 of President Ronald Reagan brought about The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act in 1993. The Brady Act provided for a 5 day waiting period when purchasing a handgun. “The implementation of Brady has raised some constitutional challenges as of this writing,…

on January 16th, 2002, a 43-year-old law student went into the school and killed the dean and a professor. As he went on to kill other students, a Sheriff’s Deputy and a police officer stopped him with their own weapons. Finally, on May 27th, 2010, a man with a Magnum revolver went into an AT&T shop with a list of employees to kill. As he fired at an employee, a concealed carrier got his own weapon and stopped the killer. Only one employee was injured.…

When the founding fathers of the United States wrote the Constitution, they added the Bill of Rights which is a set of the first the ten amendments of to the Constitution. The second of these amendments, states that "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." (U.S Const. Amend II). Particularly, this amendment is interpreted in many ways; some pro gun-control groups say only militias are…

Over the years, many laws have been challenged by today’s society for many different reasons. Sometimes the people have valid reasons for their want for change, sometimes they do not. In these past couple years, some of the most eminent controversial laws have been those are gun control. The disagreement have arose due to some terrorist actions acted out by psychologically ill U.S citizens. For instance, the shooting that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary school leaving 26 innocent children and…

Guns are they necessary or not? The following articles are articles that are in approval of guns. The first article is writing by a Sharon Harris who president of the Advocates for Self-Government. The article gives real life stories of how guns are good to society. For example, the first story if about a 19 year of that had to use a gun on some men that were trying to home in his house to steal. He shot one of the men which made the rest of the men leave. Sharon then writes that it’s reported…

Paper on Gun Control Guns Don’t Kill People, But People Kill People Us as americans we are a gun culture. in 2009 about 124 million people lived in households owned a total of 270 million guns. So that means that we are obsessed with guns. But the question now is: what do we know about guns? how many of us actually used one or seen a gun that being used? How many of us seen people pointing a gun at each other or seen someone actually killing other? How many people actually used a gun to…