Gun Control and Violence in the USA Did you know that five a woman a day are killed by guns in America? Since December 15, 1791 the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects the right of the people to keep and bear arms. In the past decade gun control has been a huge issue the USA, with many people supporting the right to own fire arms but another big group wanting to make the ownership of fire arms illegal. The dispute has many pros and cons, but if we take a long look to the
If a gun shoots a person through the cranium or the heart, it will be immediate death for them. If not, then they will either slip away in a few seconds, bleed to death, or kick the bucket from hydrostatic shock...either way they are going to be at the verge of death or in a state of traumatic pain. So why on Earth was the taboo of holding guns lifted in the CNMI when it is so risky? There are a great deal of pros and cons about guns but the majority of the people rebel against the hand-gun law for
Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted? Common Sense or Gun Control? We live in a reactive society whereby we wait for things to go wrong then we form arguments based on the prevailing situation. American have been owning gun since time immemorial but it is not until something in the stature of the recent Las Vegas shootings, and Orlando shooting where arguments for gun control arise. America already have enough gun control laws and I opine that enactment of more laws to control gun usage among
Pew Foundation report found that 79% of male gun owners and 80% of female gun owners said owning a gun made them feel safer, and 64% of people living in a home in which someone else owns a gun felt safer. 2. The US General Accounting Office (GAO) estimated that 100% of deaths per year in which a child under 6 years old shoots and kills him/herself or another child could be prevented by automatic child-proof safety locks. 3. The Centers for Disease Control listed firearms as the #12 cause of all deaths
There is a lot to say about gun control in America, people think that there shouldn’t be gun laws put in place and some people think they should have laws because sometimes firearms land in the wrong hands. When they do there is lots of reasons they might be used for like drug dealing and mass shootings. A mass shooting is where a gunman kills four or more people. In 2015, 372 mass shootings occurred so that came to 7 mass shootings every week. On December 15, 1791 the 2nd Amendment was introduced
There are new gun control laws from the after-effects of the Zug massacre that took place on September 27, 2001, in the city Zug, Switzerland in the canton's parliament where Friedrich Leibacher killed 14 people before killing himself. This is one of the incidents that have gun laws permissive and in need of better laws. Gun control supporters who claim that permissive gun laws such as Israel and Switzerland increase the probability of high-casualty violent events, homicides, and suicides within
Consequently, violent crimes in the United States involving guns have dramatically increased in recent years. Stricter gun laws that make it more difficult to obtain firearms are necessary to help deal with this issue. Is it beneficial to bear arms? According to the legislation, as of 2013 carrying a firearm in public is permitted in all 50 states just as long you have a permit. Psychologist, David Kyle Johnson states, “Some people think it is not guns that kill people; it is people that kills people”
Rifle Association (NRA), and demanding more gun control. But is demanding more control on guns really going to keep our students safe? There are really two sides to the debate on preventing school shootings, one side is pleading for
The Right to Bear Arms: Its Pros and Cons The “Right to Bear Arms” is the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution, which became a law collectively with the 9 amendments composing the Bill of Rights. The commandment it holds states that “Well governed armed forces, which are vital to provide security and protection to the independent State, shall not disobey the natural right of a person to bear arms,” proclaiming the militias to recognize completely citizens’ rights. While there are benefits
A study from the Journal of Quantitative Criminology found that, “ U.S. civilians use guns to defend themselves and others from crime at least 989,883 times per year” ( just-facts). Gun control in America has been a popular and controversial topic since the founding of the nation. In recent years the topic of it has made a resurgence in popularity with the majority of citizens and the two main political parties, split over its effectiveness. This has caused Americans to publish studies and lobby