Gun Control The day our school had a mass shooting all they heard was gunshots, the teacher screaming at the kids to get down and under their desks as she ran out of the room soon to be back in a panic the kids looked up to the man with the gun. Then a few more shots go off and it was so silent for a second to only realize that the police had shot the man with the gun. Are guns really the cause of mass shootings, or is it the people who should never have been allowed a gun in their hands, in the first place. Therefore stricter gun control laws won't stop gun violence. Background check systems are ineffective in preventing gun violence. Any adult can go to a gun show in the United States and buy a gun without and identification or passing …show more content…
Background checks are to keep dangerous people from getting guns. Incomplete records and loop holing in the law have stopped background checks from being very effective. Revised legislation would put in place a tighter deadline an stricter penalties for states that don't comply with the law and submit records. Gun ownership with stricter controls could reduce gun violence. The U.S. will have limited effects because of the hundreds of millions of guns that already exist in private hands. Guns cause roughly 30,000 deaths per year in 2010 606 people 62 of them were younger that 15 died from accidental shootings. People want to be more live Canada with less guns and more registered guns. Others believe that stronger background check systems will help prevent gun violence and gun ownership with stricter controls could reduce gun violence, but when the president talks about gun control it always seems like I see on the news a mass shooting or people being held captive. Gun control could get better by having stricter background checks but the wont stop shootings or gun violence. The more gun control the government wants to put on us will cause more mass shootings. People want their rights not them being taken
Efforts to promote gun control date back to the 1960s. For instance, The Gun Control Act of 1968 attempted to keep firearms away from people not of age, and holding a criminal background. Even though these laws exist, people wanting to harm still find ways of legally obtaining firearms. Sick people will go out of their ways to get what they want; the only thing we could do is make it harder for them to obtain weapons by making background checks more complex. I personally believe that it is President Barack Obama 's job to address these issues and bring about reforms for he is the highest official of this national. Furthermore, according to Infoplease, Obama is trying to address gun control: “...His plan includes universal background checks for gun sales, the reinstatement and strengthening of the assault weapons ban, limiting ammunition magazines to a 10-round capacity, and other measures” (Gettings). Things need to be done to reduce the number of tragedies. As stated, “Close to 33,000 Americans were victims of gun-related deaths in 2011 and an average of 268 citizens are shot every day” (Daily Record Staff).The chart on the right shows that only a few states have current laws designed to protect citizens. One could infer that the death rate in the United States is awfully high. Specifically, California 's current gun control legislation is said to be one of the best. Many bills have passed in an
We need to continue creating new legislation to regulate gun laws. As previously pointed out, there are loopholes in our current set of laws that allow for people to bypass the background check system completely at times. We first must look into ways of upgrading our current existing laws to ensure problems like this don’t keep happening. After that, as has been discussed earlier and seen in other countries around the world, we must continue to pass gun legislation laws because it will help to reduce overall violent crimes in the country.
With background checks, there is a better chance that guns don’t get into the hands of the wrong people.
There are many good people out there, and sometimes they are to good. In some circumstances, someone might buy a firearm and a relative that did not meet the qualifications to obtain a firearm just ask to use it to go hunting. Something that simple as a family member asking to try out another qualified family members firearms can put many lives in danger. Many people will not think a family member would be capable of taking a life or their own and that trust is what put many others lives in danger. Another reason as to why a family background check needs to be enforced is what if the person that obtains the firearm lives in the home with a known criminal? In a short reading from the “American Now” book a short article By James Stancliffe called Guns Act As a Force Multiplier endangering everyone he states that his “main issue with guns is that they act as a force multiplier”, and this is true if falling into the wrong hands. By giving someone with a criminal family member access to a firearm is just like giving that known criminal access to that firearm also. One last reason a family background check needs to be enforced is if there are children in the house. If there are children in the home further precautions need to be enforced, like a lock box with a key in a high area in a low traffic room . Children do not know the dangers of a
Should the 2nd amendment be revoked or changed? Many Americans would say “No,” stating that guns are dangerous and times have changed. Others might argue that having the right to bear arms keeps people safe and less threated by the outside world. In this debate, both sides of the 2nd amendments constitutional rights will be argued. The upcoming presidential election has been influencing voters to revoke our 2nd amendment rights which could change the democracy on which our country was founded.
Imagine, a person is sitting in their classroom in college. He or she is focused on listening to the teacher, because he or she needs to pass the final exam in order to graduate. All of a sudden, an intruder charges through the door. The intruder pulls out a gun and starts blasting bullets throughout the classroom. There is nowhere to run and there is no way to fight back. Everyone is hit and on the floor, bleeding. This person is so close to graduating and starting a new life. Now his life has been cut short, because there was someone who illegally brought a gun to a school. Because the school had a symbol of “no guns allowed”. Because the intruder knew there was no one else could shoot back. Now imagine if that student, dying on the floor,
One way gun control advocates have tried to reduce the number of guns being issued to citizens of the United States of America is to require background checks. Background checks are performed on some weapons but they want a full background check for felonies, mental issues, proper classes, safety precautions to name a few. Background checks would make sure that if you have any type of police record you will be given a second look and make sure that you are fit to own a gun. (Asa Best) If you have a record this does not mean that you will not be able to own a gun it may just mean that your ch...
Just in the US there are over 100,000 people shot each year. 72 perecent of all violent killings use guns as the weapon. 40 percent of US homes have guns, 57 percent of people in which do have guns believe there should be major restrictions or a ban on guns. In January 2016, Obama announced new actions on gun control, these actions include an update and expansion on background checks. The Supreme Court held a collective right that to own guns is a purpose for maintaining a militia. There should be more gun control laws because it would help reduce the high rate of violent crimes. More laws need to be made to protect oneself from harm of others.
Gun control is a highly controversial topic in today’s world where the fight is between the liberal and the conservatives. Many people believe that guns should be banned due to many recent massacres that have happened whereas others are wanting people to have background checks done before owning a gun. I am against gun control because banning handguns in the United States should not be allowed because handguns fail to protect the people and it is ineffective.
Regulation of guns is a necessary action that needs to be taken in order to
With the spree of school and adolescent shootings over recent years there has been an outcry for the prohibition of gun ownership. However, will banning guns stop the rising violence in American culture? It is my belief that we cannot ban guns to solve the violence in our country.
They believe that if background checks were required for private sales, which they describe as “firearms sold at gun shows, through classified newspaper ads, the Internet, and between individuals virtually anywhere” then the “Gun Show Loophole” would be eliminated (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). As evidenced by the call for an increase in gun control after mass shootings, people believe that with stricter gun control, we would have less incidences of gun violence. Gun control advocates argue that if we have stricter gun control, then we will have a safer country, with fewer shootings. According to a study done by the University of Wisconsin and Bowling Green State University between 2005-2007, the number of police officers who “were convicted of firearms violations” was convicted “at a.0002% annual rate” (Fund).
Gun rights are the source of much controversy in today’s society. People have been skeptic after the multiple shootings that happened in the past few years. Recently, the NRA has been under constant threat by Congress. Background checks are not effective as planned. In order to keep the gun rights, changes need to be made in order to prevent gun control from being created.
The National Firearms Act (NFA) was originally passed by congress in 1934. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives explain that “the original Act imposed a tax on the making and transfer of firearms defined by the Act, as well as a special (occupational) tax on persons and entities engaged in the business of importing, manufacturing, and dealing in NFA firearms”. This was another method used to limit the purchase of firearms to those that could afford to pay for the firearm and the addition fees required with the purchase. In addition, the National firearms Act also included the requirement that certain firearms be registered, so that the owner of a numbered weapon was on record” ( Eichenwald, 2015). While this act increased
Having better gun control can help us keep people safe. Most people die because of guns in today’s community. One solution is to run background checks on the buyer. “ In recent years gun control debates have focused primarily on three uses: background checks for buyers, laws regulating who can carry weapons in public, and the kinds of guns that are available for purchase.” Guns are not the things that kill people, people are the ones who kill other people. But in order to kill someone they use guns, and they people who kill are either crazy or criminals. So if we take away or have better gun control laws then we can keep people safe.