464,033 deaths, in fourteen years, and only 1.3% of these were caused by a shooter. Guns, the thing we use to hunt and to protect our families are being threatened to have taken away and we must stand against it. People who have been through background checks, are mentally stable, and law abiding citizens, without past gun violations, have deserved the right to own a weapon, be it for hunting or for their own protection. Many members of my family own guns, not to go and kill people, but to hunt, just as Americans have done for hundreds of years and to give ourselves some peace in knowing we can fight back. First of all to explain, some people believe that guns should be taken away from non-officials, including law abiding citizens, because …show more content…
Gun control laws do not deter crime; gun ownership deters crime. How would we fix this issue? Simply by having more strict background checks and not just giving guns to anyone. According to Gallup, Over 90% of the public supports background checks for all gun purchases, yet the measure failed to pass the U.S. Senate. Also, saying that the gun is the reason is a person is dead is like saying a pen misspelled a word, or that it was the football’s fault it didn’t land in the receiver's arms. According to gun owners.org, twice as many children die from playing football than being killed by a gun. So at that point would you like to ban football …show more content…
How would the government take every single gun away from every single person who doesn’t have a badge? Additionally the gun-homicide rate decreases as the gun ownership increases. In 1994, the gun-homicide rate was 7 deaths per 100,000 people, in the last few years that has dropped to only 3.6. CNSnews.com states that the last six years have been safer that the twenty before that. Also, National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre believes that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In fact the rate of purchase goes up after mass shootings as well as when more laws are put in place, and decrease when the people are given more liberty in having a
Gun control is a vital necessity to the welfare of our nation. Many people out there are supporting the “anti- gun control cause” with the excuse of “self-defense”. I believe that not everyone will handle a gun for self-defense. The possession of a gun is a sign of power. One of the bigger ambitions that one has is to have power and the easier it is to obtain a gun; the faster a criminal will gain power over an innocent person. When one is in possession of a gun, that person has complete control of their actions and may act upon the weapon however the person may please even if they know that their action will cause harm to defense-less people. There are many deaths caused by guns out there that could
We have +400% more shootings than the next country over the last 50 years and it seems to have no decline in sight. There is a saying that says, “If it’s not broken don't fix it.” However, our system is currently extremely flawed. A shooting happens, we mourn the dead for a week, or even a day, the gun debate comes up, and we move on with our lives. The common trend is to take the guns away from people, and to make it harder to own a firearm. When it comes down to it, the laws do not matter to these shooters. You want to make it harder to purchase a firearm with more background checks and more hoops to jump through? Who says they buy the guns legally? You put up a sign that says gun free zone? Well if there is a sign saying so then of course they won't bring one in do do harm right? There are three types of people in this world. The wolves, the sheep, and the sheepdogs. The wolves will alway look for blood, to prey on the others with their teeth and tenacity. The solution is to not have less sheepdogs in hopes the wolves will feel bad for the unprotected sheep, but instead will continue to prey on the weak. More sheepdogs equals less likely of a wolf attack, and that is a visualization that we can all live
News is all around us and is readily available to everyone. There are many flaws in the system that hurts the authenticity of the news when you see it. The media is indirectly part of the political system. Most news is either considered liberal or conservative by many.
We lose more than 32,000 Americans to gun violence every year in this country. That’s an average of 87 deaths a day. These tragedies range from gun accidents and suicides to horrific mass shooting like those at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. (Everitt)
In today’s society the majority of the crimes are still being committed by people who have possessed a firearm that has been obtained illegally or without proper permits. That being said there has been a strong push for gun control because of the rise of shootings involving a large group of people such as the Columbine massacre, Virginia Tech shooting and latest Aurora movie theater shooting involving people who have purchased firearms legally. Gun control laws in the United States have been established for many years but to maintain a civilized society with limited crime stronger control laws need to be enforced in which will help reduce crime in our country. Establishing stronger gun control laws will educate
Gun Control Laws have been proven ineffective. Cities like Chicago and Detroit have very strict gun control laws, yet they have some of the highest crime rates, whereas cities with more guns have lower crime rates. Places that have a higher rate of gun ownership, have less murders. Gun control laws do not prevent criminals from breaking the law. Criminals will still obtain firearms, or
If gun control is regulated, then we will have less crime. Access to firearms makes killing easy, efficient, and impersonal, which increases the lethality of crime. Josh Sugarmann, the Executive Director of the Violence Policy Center has once said, "We recoil in horror and search for explanations, but we never face up to the obvious preventive measure: a ban on the handy killing machines that make crimes so easy.”Allowing untrained people to carry guns puts others at risk and it can result in self-inflicting injuries both by suicide and unintentional incidents. Gun violence in America kills more than 30,000 and injures almost 70,000 each year. Guns can be misused and abused, which is why gun
Gun control, you're either for or against it. No matter what anybody says we do have a problem. In 2015 13,286 people were killed by a firearm,but you can't take guns away from everybody, there is always a way to get a gun. In 2012 in Los Angeles, California the police taken in 122 illegal weapons for every 100,000 residents, New York was 39, and Chicago was 277, but that isn't including the ones that they haven't found yet. I think that we need to focus more getting the illegal weapons off the street and keep them out of the hands of felons, mentally ill, children under the age of 18 and maybe have a more extensive thorough background check and have some form of training to be able to purchase a gun. But in all reality I think to stop the
President Obama would like to change the gun law(s), therefore we can reduce gun violence (mass murdering, school shootings etc.).
Crime cannot be prevented by gun control. Criminals can steal firearms, use a fake ID, or illegally manufacture firearms. A criminal can easily work around a background check if they don’t have a serious offense on their record. Also states with a higher gun ownership rate have a lower violent crime rate. On average when states makes stricter conceal and carry laws they see a spike of 10% in violent crimes(proton.org). Owning a gun is a deterrent for criminals, because when a criminal knows that many people in an area own firearms they are less likely to try to break entry in that area.
Gun control laws aim to restrict or regulate firearms by selecting who can sell, buy and possess certain guns. Criminals do not obey laws and stricter gun control laws or banning guns will have little effect on reducing crimes. There are many myths about gun control reducing acts of gun violence, which are simply not true according to research. People are responsible for the crimes, not the guns themselves. Taking guns away from United States citizens that use them for many reasons, shooting practice, competition, hunting and self-defense, should not be punished for the acts of criminals. As stated by Mytheos Holt, “Guns in the right hands help public safety. Guns in the wrong hands harm public safety”. Research shows that defensive use of
The United States Constitution says that its Citizens have the right to bear arms. This Amendment, when written had no limitations or constraints, however there seems to be more laws than ever trying to govern or ban the carrying and even ownership of firearms as a whole. Many say that the reasons for the attempt of gun control laws are due to the safety of the public nevertheless if you look at the statistics themselves it shows that armed law bidding citizens stop more violent crime involving and not involving firearms if armed than the police department, which are paid to provide the service and are mandated to protect and serve. The Chapters of Freedom, (1992) Now, there are a few safety reasons out there why ownership of firearms could be banned, but these arguments are mostly offset; not only for the need for protection, but because of how the restriction of this constitutional right would become dangerous close if not, taking away United States citizens personal freedoms.
In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their issue agenda has evolved as new and more powerful weapons and militia appear. On the other side of the debate, the critical wounding of James Brady gave gun control advocates a visible martyr with strong ties to Republican conservatives. In sum, gun control and the right to bear arms have become hotly disputed issues where political alignments are constantly shifting.
Living a life in America, we all get to have all the rights that included in the Constitution. One of those was the Second Amendment which is the rights to bear arm, the purpose was to protect ourselves from danger but nowadays a lot of people have take advantage of it and use it in the wrong way. I believe our government need to have a strict limit on guns possession.
There are gun control laws to try and reduce the number of violent shootings that occur. They are trying to put limits on weapons that Americans can own. The government is trying to take our guns away mainly because of people that are criminally insane. Most of the people who commit crimes don’t even have the weapons legally. If the government takes away the rights of people who are allowed to have firearms in their possession, it will most definitely cause an outrage. Most people believe that the people should be more capable of maintain proper use of the firearms instead of having them all taken away. Taking the firearms from Americans away would cause a lot more problems than there actually are. The people will be upset with the