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New Stricter Gun Control Laws In The United States

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Gun violence has gotten out of hand. People are able to get them and use them on others with little to any resistance. Although many people think the laws should be changed to fit this generation, it’s harder than it sounds. It takes a lot of thought and agreement to amend laws. Even if they could be amended to being stricter, all citizens wouldn't be willing to follow them. Stricter gun control laws, which would be difficult to agree on, would not be effective in controlling gun ownership/availability and would be hard to enforce. Politicians would have a hard time coming to an agreement and citizens still believe in the second amendment and their gun rights. The congressmen from different states would have different opinions on how to change the laws or if they …show more content…

This has been the case in the past. The federal government has created laws or regulations that states did not agree with. There are fifty states, and the chance they will all agree is highly unlikely. Some may choose they do not want to make the laws part of their constitution. In that case, more laws would need to be made in order to keep an ineligible citizen from leaving their residential state and acquiring guns from states that do not follow the same laws. Some states may choose to overturn the laws. Citizens would have unpredictable responses where not all of them would be in compliance. A black market makes a lot of money off illegally sold firearms and would benefit from stricter laws. Regardless of the firearm is legal or illegal, the black markets all over America have sold them. This would only increase if more firearms were made or illegal or harder to acquire. To enforce the laws over black markets would be difficult. Already, the markets operate under current laws, regardless that it isn’t allowed. The government would have to take a lot of steps and spend tons of resources and manpower to find and stop

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