The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

When I was a senior in High School, we spent over two weeks on the topic of “Amendments” and one of the most conflicting topics we covered was gun control, specifically the 2nd Amendment. Today, it’s still one most hotly debated topics in the U.S. and how it applies to the 2nd Amendment. The 2nd Amendment states that, “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” (Cornell Univ. Law) .Citizens all over the country have made their own interpretations of what the Founding Fathers wrote when giving us the right to bear arms. The debate of gun control laws in the U.S. today relates to the 2nd amendment because the amendment lacks to give clarity to what type of weapon is acceptable, lengths we should take to keep them out of the wrong hands, and the backlash that pro gun advocates to believe limitations are unconstitutional.

The biggest issue being argued by pro and anti gun enthusiasts is should semi-automatic rifles be allowed. When the 2nd amendment was made into law, semi-automatic capabilities

Pro gun advocates are arguing that any limitation goes against not only the law itself but also the vision the Founding Fathers had for its citizens bearing arms. The arguments they give, besides being unconstitutional, focus on the fact that guns will always find their way into the wrong hands, taking them out of law abiding citizens hands leaves us unprotected (Israel). The NRA’s slogan of “The Good Guy with the Gun” is what they are basing their protest on gun control law on (Israel) .The only problem with this is that the recent mass shootings have involved law-abiding citizens that have fallen through the cracks mentally. While their records have shown that they didn’t get in trouble, it didn’t show that their mental capacity couldn’t handle owning and possessing a