Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

In America 's most recent years, there had been multiple mass shootings throughout the United States in every location one could think of: from Sandy Hook Elementary to a Colorado movie theatre; a family restaurant parking lot in Waco, TX to the most recent college campus in Oregon. There are a hundred other gun-related incidents throughout the past years as well; all in which leads to hundreds of deaths and thousands to grieve and wonder why these massacres happen. In America, seeing these shootings on the media have suddenly become a "routine" to see, all in which could all be avoided if the government would simply pass a law of gun control to prevent any more shootings from occurring. Though many people support the idea and believe it is

Beginning with the Firearms Act of 1920, Britain didn 't fully ban the use and sales of guns, but the citizens were required to "obtain a certificate from the government" when in ownership, a process a few states in America have recently been doing. Between the 1920 's to WWII, more tough restrictions were placed and enforced so much that self-defense was no longer a valid reason for wanting to own a firearm; however, with every purchase and certificate given out, every gun was "legally owned" and nothing could be done when mass shootings occurred. On August 19, 1987, a man used a lawfully bought rifle to kill sixteen people (one being his own mother), injure 14 other bystanders and finally himself in Hungerford, UK. His attack led to the Firearms Act of 1988, where "the possession of high-powered self loading rifles" was banned and more restrictions were placed onto certificates, but no sales were prohibited. Nine years later, in 1996, a school shooting in Dunblane, Scotland occurred, again with the shooter having legally owned guns. Seventeen people (sixteen of them students) were killed, with the shooter killing himself after; the country continued to make another act (the Firearms Act of 1997) and placed "an all-out ban of on private gun ownership."

However, it seems that people forget that the Amendment was passed during a time of impending British invasion, and was intended to only be a militia right. Though that in itself is its own debate, people, especially those who own their own firearms, have other valid reasoning to why gun control should not be aloud. They being up the point that controlling the sales of guns would not lead to less crime, but it should be ownership and background checks on the owner that could lead to lower crime rates. However, by doing these checks, it would be an "invasion of privacy," which the government is required to protect at all costs; the topic of "micro-stamping" also falls into the same argument. If gun control were to pass, however, it would only lead to more tension between the citizens and government if the restrictions are only made on a certain ethnic group or race. The stereotypes of certain races in America may lead to the government requiring specific restrictions for only that group, but less or different restriction for another; the inequality of gun control could send many into outrage and demand that others be treated and restricted in the same