Gun Control Issue

He feels we should politicize it and make changes to laws to make them safer, since it should not be that easy to get a gun in the United States. To support his arguments he criticizes that a lot of money has been spent to try and stop terrorism, yet congress will not allow to try and stop mass shootings. He mentions that when things like mines, cars, or even roads

Many are against concealed carry because it would lead to an arms race. As said by Kelly Sampson, on behalf of the Brady Campaign, allowing concealed carry would force the criminals to get higher damage guns, which would lead to an unnecessary amount of guns. If criminals got higher grade weapons, it would mean more violent crimes and more deaths. Obama once said “There is a gun for roughly every man, woman, and child in America. So how can you, with a straight face, make the argument that more guns will make us safer?” and many people on the pro-gun control side stand by this.

If anything, in the current political climate we are in today, there would be much more social pressure for one not to own a gun than there would be to continue owning one. The stigma around guns still exists today that one only wants a gun to show off and go hunting and promote one's “toxic masculinity” as the article so gracefully puts. Nonetheless, the rhetorical questions the rhetor uses would be effective to someone on the more liberal side of the aisle to continue and promote their specific ideology about who uses guns and

The gun control crisis in America Since the second amendment states that citizens have the right to bear arms guns should be more accessible to citizens, restrictions relaxed in the process of buying the firearm, and there should be no more new gun laws drafted. The second amendment protects our rights to carry and possess a firearm. The current laws with in our country have put more restrictions on Guns and have made them harder to obtain. These new laws violate our constitutional rights as US citizens and are taking guns away from the people who want to use them correctly and without confrontation. It has also made it more difficult to defend yourself against another person with a gun.

Assuredly, lawbreakers who carry out violent offenses should not relish “revolving door” justice. Jack Hunter, author of How Gun Control Kills, lists various examples of “undoubtedly and dangerously psychotic individuals, such as Newtown killer Adam Lanza and Aurora shooter James Holmes, who should have been institutionalized” (Hunter 2012) proving that it is not the gun’s fault for injuring an individual but the person’s mentality. But there will constantly be people who fall through the cracks. There will consistently be corrupt men among us. Truth be told, they vision gun control laws with the same disregard that they outlook laws against murder.

It should be more difficult for mentally insane people and felons to get guns, but the right shouldn’t be taken away from the sane people who interpret this right as to protect them from dangers. Gun control laws are just as old or older than the Second Amendment— ratified in 1791. “Some examples of gun control throughout colonial America included criminalizing the transfer of guns to Catholics, slaves, indentured servants, and Native Americans; regulating the storage of gun powder in homes; banning loaded guns in Boston houses; and mandating participation in formal gathering of troops and door-to-door surveys about guns owned (Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?). Gun control was very heavy back then to where most people couldn’t get them even if they wanted to. I think it is extreme to not let someone own a gun for racial or political reasons.

from obtaining weapons that they could use irresponsibly may help to prevent the loss of innocent lives. The anti-gun control side states that gun control infringes on our second amendment rights thus threatening our freedom. I didn’t understand this defense too well, so I decided to investigate myself. To understand the other side better, I decided to interview a fellow acquaintance who is a gun supporter and who is quite dedicated to the cause, as he is the president of a pro-gun club. I wanted to know how the other side could believe and justify more guns as a way to actually prevent deaths, as more people die from weapon injuries in the United States than any other civilized country in the world.

This amendment guarantees the citizens a means to defend themselves in case the need arises. This right remains paramount in ensuring self-defence and limiting these rights are the initial steps for the government to take away individual rights. Additionally, it is important to note that mass shooters do not abide by the law and most of the guns used in these shootings are acquired illegally either through illegal purchases or through theft. This implies that the shooters are not subject to gun regulations and background checks. Therefore, stringent gun regulations will do nothing to prevent these shootings and these regulations will not be easy to implement due to the lack of time and resources to investigate and prosecute individuals who provide inaccurate

Those who properly own guns would not be able to defend themselves if a situation came to that point. Making something illegal means that its production will spread into homes of such criminals, thus possibly making weapons less safe. New, stronger gun laws are not the answer. “The problem with such [gun control] laws is that they take away guns from law abiding citizens while would-be criminals ignore them.” (Lott) We need to work on enforcing current gun laws to ensure the safety of others. While there should be a background check, looking at criminal history, history of

Firearms has a good and evil side to it. Gun control debates still go on in Congress because if guns are used in a good way they can preserve lives, however utilize it in a lamentable way it can eradicate life. The unsuccessful anti-gun control policy effects many violent gun related deaths each year due to the fact of mass black market distribution. There are many programs available on how to utilize guns in the correct way, trained to use a firearm correctly many lives would be protected. Lastly the founding fathers fought against a tyrant nation to gain freedom, so they created the Second Amendment to prevent that from happening again.