Second Amendment Right or Wrong?
Guns don’t cause crime, but they do make crimes more lethal. About eighty-seven people a day die in America. The guns that people have and get shouldn’t be restricted but the people that are allowed to have guns should be changed. Criminals should not be able to get guns to cause more crime.
There are many stories of people who shoot schools and public places that have mental health problems. James Holmes, the Colorado theater shooter, shot and killed 12 people and injured 70 others during a Batman film. He tried to plead insanity to get less of a sentence. The Sandy Hook shooter shot and killed 20 children, 6 staff members, his mother and himself. Before he went to the school, he killed his mother at her home. He went on to the school and killed the 20 children and 6 staff members. After he was done first responders arrived and he shot himself in the head.
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From 1994 to 2004 all assault rifles were banned under the Federal Assault Weapons Ban (The Economist 12-3). The ban banned all assault rifles after the date of its effectiveness. Magazines that could hold more than ten bullets were also banned (The Economist 12-3). These two bans limited what people could have access to and limiting the damage done if they were to decide to kill people. Fully automatic guns have been banned since 1934 by congress (The Economist 12-3). A fully automatic weapon is one that as long as the trigger is held down and there is ammunition in the magazine it will fire. This ban has prevented many guns from being made. All guns are banned inside of government buildings and schools as well as many other places (The Economist 12-3). This helped to keep important government officials and kids safe by not allowing guns where they are. Although there are people who still bring guns into these buildings, even though there are clearly marked, to be banned it still prevents people from just walking in with a
Didn't that happen after the American government took the Lokota's guns from them after promising them no harm would come to them? Of course in more modern times there was Waco, where our government bombed a religious community and ultimately killed 82 of its members, including women and children ..... Our government is not to be trusted and that is the very reason our founding fathers wrote the 2nd amendment so "We the People" can keep a check and balance on "We the People's" government
American Law Biding Citizens must not allow a Ban On Guns [http://oneamericansopinion-xerox561.blogspot.com/] and let me explain why. I am afraid for the direction in which this country is headed on various levels, but one area of concern that has been under siege for a long time is the 2ND Amendment. Now that we have a Democratically controlled congress and a very Liberal President, that concern has grown even more. Especially, with the tragic but senseless random shootings that have taken place over the past few weeks.
Schools should allow, or even require the unannounced visits for the searching of school property by K-9 units. These searches protect students and faculty and help ensure students and staff are abiding by federal laws. Allowing these searches keeps ensures the school is a safe environment for everyone involved.
I do and always will believe in the second amendment. People have the right to own and carry guns with them wherever they go. People have the right to own guns for hunting purposes and putting food on the table to feed their family, and they also have the right to carry a gun with them for self defence and keep in the house to protect their family. It is and always will be my belief that people have the right do whatever it is that they want to do when it comes to
Does the second amendment have a place in the year 2016? I personally don’t believe so. Before I go into great length, or become long winded, I will say that I am not for the second amendment. And with my upbringing, it would surprise a lot of people. I’m from the south. However, I am liberal, I come from a long line of conservative republicans and war veterans. Not to mention, my mother, by the age of 15, could take apart and put back together a machine gun. Guns as a hobby, I can respect, but it isn’t my cup of tea. Guns are dangerous, regardless if I am, or if the person holding one is. We owe it to ourselves, and to our fellow Americans to want to make the country we call home safer with every generation.
The right to bear arms is a birth given right to all Americans by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. The Second Amendment has become controversial recently due to the technological advancement of firearms. Modern firearms are capable of both high rates of fire and greater capacities of ammunition, unlike the single shot muskets that were available at the time of the Second Amendment’s conception. American liberals view these improvements in firearms as dangerous and unnecessary. However, no matter how dangerous firearms may be, the Second Amendment is a necessity for one factor alone: protection from one’s own government and it must be upheld. The Second Amendment provides a physical tool for Americans to defend themselves against a tyrannical government, it allows Americans to form militias against a tyrannical government, and it allows Americans to maintain comparable firearms of the U.S. government in order to prevent the potential loss of American freedoms in the future.
The first article talks about the meaning of the second amendment. Some people think the second amendment was created for self-defense or hunting. Some people say that the second amendment, as it says, is the right to bear arms for a militia or something like that. Anyway, people use and bear arms to do the things they want to. Some people think that's okay and some people don't.
We have had several of the worst mass shootings in our nation's history in quick succession over the past few years. Certain legal restrictions and acts from our government could have prevented numerous deaths. Common sense background checks and limitations to cartridge size and assault weapons would surely have saved many lives at the Las Vegas Massacre, but certain men and women claim that these restrictions violate their second amendment right. They claim that guns aren't the problem. That guns don't kill people, people kill people. So limiting access to devastating guns is just avoiding the problem. The Second Amendment right presumably violated by common sense gun control is “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” (Second Amendment). The Second Amendment states that for the need of a well regulated militia to protect the security of the free state and the right for the people to keep and bear arms. Militias have been inactive for decades so in a sense the intent of the amendment is no longer relevant. Based on the 2nd Amendment, the Constitution is not still a valuable and viable document in modern America because it stands in the way of thorough background checks, training courses, and its vague wording and absolute intent make it inefficient to maintain peace and order and should be amended “To the People of the United
More than than 270,000 troops are being denied their gun rights,mainly from the thoughts of those who are against the 2nd Amement. It really is common in the United States. And they also are very powerful and one shot can change your life for the worst, if used incorrectly. And that shot can or even could killed somebody. And that what makes them deadly. Guns are essiential to the United States of America because guns give us protection, and they are used for hunting and other recreational activities, and they really aren’t the biggest problem to the country.
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
“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.” - Second Amendment. Throughout history, this sentence of twenty seven words has caused an intense debate. The polemic is that some people claim that a gun control policy is unconstitutional, while others disagree and even say it is necessary in order to reduce crime. Now, what does gun control mean? If it means to analyze who is responsible enough to own a gun by a “Universal Background Check”; that sounds right to everyone. But in the article “What Are Obama’s Gun Control Proposals? An Easy Guide” published in the National Journal by Matt Vasilogambros. The author states that the “gun-control
While mass shootings cause a huge unnecessary loss of life, most killings in the United States come from murders and crimes. Guns should be banned to lower crime rates. Because “more than 70% of homicides are committed with a firearm” (Cannon n.p.) and 2.
"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." The second amendment has been the subject to much political disagreements and controversy. It was written and ratified in December 1791 (Brooks “The Second Amendment & the Right to Bear Arms”). There are many who want to repeal “the right to bear arms” because they feel they feel that is why criminals get a hold of weapons so easily. Others say that citizens should have access to their own weapons and protection. Even more political controversy has arisen due to the mass shooting that took place in Las Vegas, Nevada last week-end leaving more wanting to revoke the second amendment. In spite of this, I have been brought to the conclusion that the second amendment should not be redacted because, some rely on hunting as an income, citizens have a right to defend themselves, and citizens have a right to defend their freedom.
Crime and guns seem to go hand in hand with one another, but in reality are the two really connected. Guns are powerful weapons that can cause destruction, harm, or death, but they could also be used to defend and protect citizens. If guns really lead to crime, does the government placing restrictions on guns will it help protect its citizens? The main responsibility of the government is to protect the basic rights of its citizens including the second amendment which gives the right for Americans to carry guns. The government also needs to make new laws to ensure the safety or well-being of their citizens. The government should not deny the right for people to carry guns but they could choose who buys the guns and what types of guns citizens
Any debate on crime needs to focus on crime prevention and not the guns of law abiding citizens. Controlling guns is not a crime prevention strategy, it only prevents the those who are physically weaker than their attackers like women, elderly, and disabled from defending themselves against bigger, faster and stronger aggressors.