Gun laws in the United States

simply shouldn’t be. Guns bring a balance and a sense of safety when used in the right hands. Imagine this you pull up to your house one day and your door is wide open. You can hear voices come from the inside, and your immediate instincts are to call the police. When the police show up your feel of uneasiness and horror suddenly disperse and you feel a sense of safety. The reason you suddenly feel…

Gun Control People in America have guns and are carrying them to the public and some bought their guns illegally. For every 100 people there are 88.8 guns owned or about 270,000,000 guns in America. Some people that own guns, 78% of men 80% of women in America, feel safer when having a gun with them. For this reason, a survey in 1993 when 34% of people in America wanted gun rights protected and 57% people wanted gun ownership controlled. Another survey in December 2014, 52% of people…

Beverly, and Laura Finley. "Counterpoint: Gun Control Saves Lives." Points Of View: Gun Control (2015): 3. Points of View Reference Center. Web. 7 Oct. 2015. Ballaro, Beverly and Finley, Laura points out the main theme of this article as “Gun control regulation is the best tool we have in the fight to reduce gun violence in the United States.” Both agree that the United States has one of the highest rates of gun-related violence in the developed world. Gun control has remained the main issue…

$200 if one possessed a machine gun and a short-barreled shotgun. Furthermore, a $5 tax would be imposed if one possessed a handgun. This bill, with the way it read, including a tax on handguns did not set well with the NRA. So again, they flexed their muscles and had handguns removed. So in 1934, the NFA became law. Also in the 1930’s, another significant bill was proposed, but defeated by the strong backbone of the NRA. This bill was introduced as a national gun registration by then…

There are many laws around the world that permit us from doing illegal actions. But the debate whether to allow gun control laws has caused many controversial and emotional issues among many. Gun control is a law that regulates people on who can own, sell, transfer, manufacture, or how people use firearms. This law was brought up to reduce the harmful crimes and violence committed by gun users. Thinking that the violence will reduce when the law was set in place but people seem to disagree and…

bullets are flying in the air, some will hit their targets. In the United States alone, an estimated 30.000 deaths annually are caused by firearms. These deaths are not casualties of war, but the result of criminal actions or accidents. This is a significantly higher death rate than in any other comparable country. (Hahn et al. Fig.1) Why a significantly…

Gun Control In recent years gun control has become a leading issue in the United States. Mass shootings such as the ones at Sandy Hook Elementary and Columbine High School have led people to believe that guns have become a problem in our country. Most mass shootings are immediately directly related to mental illness. I believe that the regulation of guns in America will only lead to further civil unrest, and possibly a societal breaking point. While some Americans call for a ban of guns, others…

Gun related incidents have become a huge problem in America and too many US citizens are losing their lives to guns. From shooting massacres to a child playing with a gun he had access to in his house. Guns take the lives of American citizens everyday. The Boston bombing was a terrible tragedy that no one will ever forget. However as terrible as the bombing was only 3 people died in the marathon. The same day 11 people were killed by guns (Terror). That ratio of the number of people that are…

fingers at the guns and suggest that the guns killed those people. Yes, a gun was used to commit murder but the person who did the killing was the person behind the gun. In times of crisis it was easy to pick an object as a source of fallacy in the system because it was in our nature to seek the best in humanity. To say that because those individuals had guns, and those guns made them crazy, was a crazy statement in itself. (Gulasekaram, 2010). A major part of being a responsible gun owner…

The Right To Bear Arms in America According to the second amendment in the U.S. Constitution, American citizens are allowed to own guns for purposes such as self-defense and recreation/hunting. Out of the many conflicts that are argued daily throughout America, the debate over whether the right to have ownership of a gun should or should not be taken away or restricted is one that has been discussed in Supreme Court cases such as in District of Columbia v. Heller, and researched by numerous…