Patrick Dillon
Mr. Connolly
English
10 April 2017
Throughout American History
Throughout American history, gun control law has been the nations spotlight
topic. We have seen many tragedies such as mass shootings that are always followed
by a public debate of gun safety and gun owners’ rights in America. Gun homicides
are a common cause of death in the United States, killing about as many people as
car crashes. Of course some of these killings need more attention than others, but
counting mass shootings that make headlines and the thousands of Americans
murdered one or a few at a time, gunshot homicides totaled 8,124 in 2014,
according to the F.B.I.
In 1791, the Second Amendment stated, “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 The assassination of John F. Kennedy, who was killed by
a mail-order gun that belonging to Lee Harvey Oswald, inspired this major revision
to federal gun laws. In 1968, license requirements were expanded to include more
dealers, and more detailed record keeping was expected of them. Gun control
outlawed mail order sales of rifles and shotgun. Up until this law came along, mail
order consumers only had to sign a statement that they were over 21 years of age for
a handgun. This also detailed more individuals who were banned from owning
certain guns, including drug users, and other restricted shotgun and rifles sales. Obama has proposed to tighten gun-control laws. His plan was to include universal
background checks for gun sales, the reinstatement and strengthening of the assault
weapons ban, limiting ammunition magazines to a 10 round capacity.
Gun Control is a serious and debatable problem in the United States of
America. According to “The Issue that Goes Ignored”, an essay that explores
Congress’s lack of attention to gun control issues, America’s citizens are exposed to a
homicide rate that is 6.9 times higher than many other high income nations. With
more than 4.5 million firearms sold in our country yearly, this fact is unsurprising.
Decreasing the availability of these dangerous weapons would help ensure the
safety of countless citizens. Around the world, those countries have substantially
lower rates of deaths from gun homicide. In Poland and England, only about one out
of every million people die in gun homicides each year. This is an interesting statistic
because that is about as often as an American dies in an agricultural accident or
falling from a ladder. In the United States, the death rate from gun homicides is about
31 per million people, the equivalent of 27 people shot dead every day of the year.
(where do these seats come from?)
On the other hand, the United States government would have a hard time
implementing these beneficial regulations because of the amount of guns already in
public hands. What the government could do is renew gun licenses at city police
stations and weapons that are considered unsuitable can be confiscated. The only
problem with that is citizens would simply refuse to participate in the relicensing.
Consider also the numerous weapons that United States residents illegally carry
today. From gangs to hunters, there are numerous illegal weapons throughout our society. According to Time Magazine, it is estimated that there are 310 millions guns
with the civilians, which represents 495 of United States households owning a gun.
Laws allow citizens to bear arms and therefore have been taking benefit of it. A lot of
individuals want a complete blanket ban on the ownership of guns; others want
easier access to ownership of guns so that every person may take care of their
securities. These citizens that argue gun control will take the side of our Second
Amendment, which gives them a right to own guns and have for their defense. On
the contraire, the proponents of this issue claim that guns should be controlled
because they think that guns will take care of issues like mass shootings.
There is plenty of information to support both views for the gun control. A lot
of citizens claim that guns are the reason for innocent people dying. This issue
simply tells us that technically it isn’t the actual gun hurting individuals, but more so
the person abusing their rights to bear a gun (Durrant). Commonly, the visual threat
of a gun, is enough to frighten an individual and protect the victim, but citizens
should be allowed to protect themselves if necessary.
Former United States Supreme Court Member, John Paul Stevens, wants to try
and change the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. Stevens
simply wants to change this amendment so there will no longer be a debate about
the right to bear arms being about United States citizens and strictly about law
enforcement and military personnel. This article explains not only ways to change
certain methods, but people owning a gun in general. “Some scholars point to the
prefatory language "a well regulated Militia" to argue that the Framers intended only to
restrict Congress from legislating away a state's right to self-defense”. Scholars believe that the current understanding of the Second Amendment is misunderstood. This article is
a huge role in my paper because of their ability to get straight to the source of most progun activist main argument. This also shows if the Second Amendment is being
misunderstood, then what else in the constitution is being misunderstood.
The government really should try and keep their eyes open on trying to band guns
that don’t need to be in the right person’s hand. People try and use guns as protection if
someone was to come inside your house or anything they think they need a gun, but what
about all the other weapons that are getting around too that can harm someone. I think
that it is the person using the weapon. The weapon is what is doing the harm, but the
whoever does it has to live with it deep down for the rest of his life. Police work hard to
protect everyone from those people who don’t care to harm anyone.
Proponents think that the citizens do not need guns, although many feel that
possessing those guns give them peace of mind, they never have to use those guns. That
being said, they claim that gun owners are an uneducated section of people who live at
the fringe of the society. Also, there is the case where mentally unstable individuals could
get access to a gun and shoot at anyone out of their control. By allowing access of a
weapon to a mentally unstable individual can lead to mass shootings, like we have seen
many times throughout our life. The government needs to implement stricter laws to be
able to own a weapon because then disasters such as Sandy Hook Elementary School
taking innocent children and adults lives. In my opinion, this incident was not handled
correctly because we would have seen a change in gun control. Having guns that legal
and keeping them away from people that have those people that have those mental issues you those people always need to have something on their record so when they have a
checkup done on them Provide a counter argument as to why people wouldn’t want to legalize access to
guns, but show how your argument is stronger, (this will also make the paper
longer.) Gabor, Thomas. “The Second Amendment: Is Gun Regulation
Compatible with the Constitution?”Confronting Gun Violence in
America, 2016, pp. 263–272., doi:10.1007/978-3-319-33723-4_15.
Magazine, Time. "Guns of the USA." 2013 January 2013.
(n.d.). Businessweek. Gun Control and the Constitution: Should We Amend the Second
Amendment?
New York Times article I sent you.

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