Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

This was rather obsessive considering the standard issue magazine that came with every AR-15 was 30 rounds. However, the legislators were kind enough to include a grandfather clause that allowed all current owners to keep their “high capacity magazines” and AR-15s. The clause also covered private sales, so individuals could still exchange the rifles and magazines between each other (Plumer). Thankfully, this legislation has since left. In 2004 the law expired and even though there has been some support to get the law reenacted, it has not been enough and hopefully continues to stay that way. Of the many gun regulations that are out there, including the ones have come and gone, the Federal Firearms Act was by far the most overreaching and oppressive.

They believe that because these countries have strict gun control and low gun violence rates, then gun control works and needs to be implemented here. The problem is that it isn’t clear what is contributing to their low gun violence rates. It would seem that it is gun control, but there are a lot of variables that go along with comparing the countries together. Some of the things that need to be taken into account are the history and the people. America’s history is different from almost all other countries. Our nation founded on the very belief that the people are in control of the government. That is the first and foremost important principle. A second important factor to consider is the people themselves. It sounds bad but by stereotyping the people one can see a correlation between the people and the gun crime rates. Japanese citizens are very respectful and therefore low gun crime rates make sense. On the other hand, Americans have a bad stereotype of being mean, selfish, and lazy. By looking at how others see each country it isn’t surprising that America has a higher gun crime rate because our people are generally