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
Kendra Gallos English III H 3/21/18 Gun Control Will Not Solve Anything Guns are given a bad reputation because of the terrors that can be committed by people who want to cause harm. Those who are gun control advocates wish to ban certain weapons without basis, ban certain weapon attachments, and restrict the rights of the second amendment. Gun control supporters base their opinion on statistics about gun violence that use a portion of data that is not about gun violence just to boost the value of
Gun control what is it? Gun control is basically a way for the government to control how we use,buy and sell guns. Its a way for the government to take away our basic right of freedom to have a gun. A Lot of people are pro gun control and all that for the shootings that happened now I agree with that but if you take away guns completely from america it will leave one of the biggest powerhouse in the world today vulnerable for attacks. Now don't get me wrong but,I think it would be safer if we kept
America owns about 250 million guns, nearly at least 1 firearm for every citizen. When we hear about shootings, and think that they are so tragic, but what do we do about it? Most of the shooters are motorized on stealing guns. This topic about gun control catches my attention because a lot of kids steal guns from their parents and commit suicide, or steal guns and go to a school with them, and shoot people. An instance that I hold is what happened in Florida. A 19-year-old named Nikolas Cruz walked
Gun violence and gun control are very touchy subjects. These topics are specifically two sided and no middle space. As millennials, we all have grown up knowing that school shooting happen and in high schools, middle schools and colleges all too often. We have had to practice drills for school shootings and although it may be a smart idea for us to be safe rather than sorry, should we have to worry that someone will be coming to school with the possibility of being shot. After watching the movie
commentator, Tammy Bruce, in her article, Why Gun Control Wont End Mass Murder, describes many statistics of gun violence. Bruce’s purpose is to make her readers aware of gun violence and the many factors contributing to it as well as how it is statistically unlikely that gun control will help. She adopts an aggressive tone in order to support those that agree with her. The main ideas expressed throughout this article are that politicians use shootings and gun violence for political gain and aren’t
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
In recent time guns have come under a national spotlight because of recent mass shootings. Guns offer a wide variety of uses for both good and bad things. People use them to defend themselves scare off potential attacks or robberies. However, some people use them for very bad things like killing and stealing things from other people. The second amendment should not be changed or restricted because guns are already very restricted and there's no reason to make them any harder to get for law abiding
other guns from his mother’s collection. After shooting the principal and school psychologist, he walked into a first-grade classroom, where he shot and killed the teacher and fifteen of the sixteen students. Only one person in the room survived, a six-year-old girl who played dead until Lanza was gone. Lanza continued his killing spree throughout the school, killing a total of twenty children and six adults, wounding two others, and then finally shooting himself.” - Thinking Critically: Gun Control
been many deaths due to guns. Many of those deaths are due to school shootings in which have left many families without their loved ones. From the Sandy Hook shooting, to the Pulse shooting in Orlando, to the Vegas shooting and to the most recent tragedy of school shooting in Florida. Kids and parents should not have to fear going to school or anywhere with the thought that their school might be the next