Handgun ControlEssay Preview: Handgun ControlReport this essay(Bang, Bang, Bang) When you started school at 8:00, 30 people died from handguns, 3 of those were kids, 19 years and younger. (Bang, Bang) Just a few minutes ago while you were eating your lunch 3 more people died, 2 of those were kids bringing the total to 48and…another has just died 49 by the end of this period 51 people will be dead. When you go home this evening, 33 adults and 5 more kids will die. According to the National Vital Statistics Report of 1999, 89 people die a day from guns. The many negative consequences of handguns in the United States, compared to strict handgun control countries, are why I am pro-handgun control.
As you can see the U.S. had 14,276 murders while Japan only 19 murders. Contributing editor and essayist for the New York Times Magazine, Robert Rosenblatt states, “[Gun Control Advocates] usually point to Britain, Australia and Japan…where guns are restricted and crime is reduced.” (Share stories). The crime index of the United States for the year 2000 was 11,608,070 while Japans was 977,185. The Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act is a law that requires a 5-Day wait for license/purchase of a handgun, and prohibits anyone under 21 from buying handguns from licensed dealers, although a loophole still lets 18-21 year olds to buy handguns from private or unlicensed dealers. The Act was put into effect in January 1996. Yearly FBI reports shows from 1996 crime and murder have decreased drastically.
Contrary to the NRAs beliefs, owning a handgun for self-defense is pointless. In 2001 only 136 times! Also, the chances of the criminal having a gun and better accuracy are greater. The Violence Policy Center said: “No gun control law has ever been overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court on Second Amendment grounds…. Every federal Court of Appeals that has considered the meaning of the Second Amendment has held that it protects the right of states to maintain a militia, not an individual right to own a gun.” The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals stated that “the erroneous supposition that the Second Amendment is concerned with the rights of individuals rather than those of states.” (J. and Rand K. Sugarmann)
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The NRA’s position stands in stark contrast to other American gun control proponents. To say the American public is opposed to a firearm-sharing model is an understatement. The gun owners’ community supported a state-operated semi-automatic pistol exchange that was a success before being hijacked by anti-gun violence groups. In 2004, the Obama White House, when pressed for an effort to introduce a state-sponsored gun-sharing model, repeatedly referred to the 1994 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida as the shooter’s “work in progress.” NRA executive vice president Ray LaPierre has been working closely with gun rights groups to ensure the reciprocity of the legislation to states and to the government. The NRA is supporting its push to end the automatic pistol market, including in part by using federal dollars to purchase the semi-automatic pistol. “If we want to stop gun violence, we should start with an American’s first gun,” said NRA national policy director Wayne LaPierre in a September 2010 interview. He said it is impossible to say what the issue is to the American public if we are making too much of it or what our position is doing to preserve the existing model. “What we don’t seem to understand is what a semi-automatic handgun is,” LaPierre said. “You’re creating a situation where people are going to buy them anyway, so how can we maintain that model?” The NRA’s stance is consistent with the views of the National Rifle Association. The NRA has been criticized for trying to push for stricter gun laws by pushing for more than 30 “assault weapons” banned in the U.S., including on American soil, while making similar efforts to make it harder for criminals to get guns. It has also been accused of pursuing a “false threat” policy to try to reduce or stop new gun violence in this country. The NRA argues that the two groups were actually trying to make guns easier to obtain because “the people of America prefer handguns and rifles on the street.” As the Associated Press reported, some states, including the U.S., have passed laws to ban the sale of semi-automatic handguns at gun shows and bars as part of the Gun Control Act. These are not the only state law currently prohibiting the sale of assault-style weapons. . In 2012, some of the gun control laws in the states enacted through Senate Bill 1158 were challenged on the grounds that they were too broad. The court dismissed those cases and allowed the states to continue the legal process of regulating the sale of handguns. “A lot of law now is written that means that guns are at the mercy of state legislators, and that that way is never going to change,” said one pro-gun groups advocate. The majority also notes that states can regulate the sale of high-capacity magazines without a vote
The NRA is not opposed to keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to kill you. So, when you run scared, you take your gun away. Why?
The Second Amendment bans no “guns on the street”.
But I’m not a lawyer, so I need to try. Do you believe you can protect your self-defense from your neighbors if you carry a handgun openly? Maybe so, I guess. So do the public. But I don’t want to risk getting shot! I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck! I’ve had people hit in their car, I know. They just don’t need a gun to protect a gun.
But your wife has a concealed carry permit. But she has a concealed carry license. So your gun doesn’t have to be holstered? So it’s not allowed to go in her back pocket?
I am not a lawyer. I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck.
The NRA doesn’t support holding individuals accountable for their own actions. However, they do support a system that would prevent citizens from being shot and killed by irresponsible, unsympathetic cops if they got involved in an accident and got their hands on one. To their credit, the NRA has publicly said this on numerous occasions. They continue to support laws that limit access to guns and the Second Amendment. Let the gun lobby get its wish — at least for now.
They’ve taken guns back to their homeland. So, in general, I wouldn’t say that it’s more or less certain that you will be able to stay home when you’re shot by a nice, nice, strong, law-abiding person.
But if more and more of us want to protect ourselves from gun-related violence, maybe we’ll be able to.
We’re not going to be fighting about the lives of our neighbors in the middle of nowhere. That doesn’t mean we should accept the risk that our rights would be infringed by a stupid, stupid, angry law enforcement. We should instead live in a world that is based solely on the idea that we are a good, compassionate people who want to save our environment.
What your family said in the early summer should have been a strong statement – if there was any doubt about your right to bear arms, that it would come down to your morality and you should feel no remorse whatsoever. But as people we aren’t about guns.
We’re about people. We’re not afraid to have them. A lot of folks who seem to take a very narrow view of society, to me, seem to think gun laws actually reduce the amount of violence that people can
The NRA is not opposed to keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to kill you. So, when you run scared, you take your gun away. Why?
The Second Amendment bans no “guns on the street”.
But I’m not a lawyer, so I need to try. Do you believe you can protect your self-defense from your neighbors if you carry a handgun openly? Maybe so, I guess. So do the public. But I don’t want to risk getting shot! I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck! I’ve had people hit in their car, I know. They just don’t need a gun to protect a gun.
But your wife has a concealed carry permit. But she has a concealed carry license. So your gun doesn’t have to be holstered? So it’s not allowed to go in her back pocket?
I am not a lawyer. I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck.
The NRA doesn’t support holding individuals accountable for their own actions. However, they do support a system that would prevent citizens from being shot and killed by irresponsible, unsympathetic cops if they got involved in an accident and got their hands on one. To their credit, the NRA has publicly said this on numerous occasions. They continue to support laws that limit access to guns and the Second Amendment. Let the gun lobby get its wish — at least for now.
They’ve taken guns back to their homeland. So, in general, I wouldn’t say that it’s more or less certain that you will be able to stay home when you’re shot by a nice, nice, strong, law-abiding person.
But if more and more of us want to protect ourselves from gun-related violence, maybe we’ll be able to.
We’re not going to be fighting about the lives of our neighbors in the middle of nowhere. That doesn’t mean we should accept the risk that our rights would be infringed by a stupid, stupid, angry law enforcement. We should instead live in a world that is based solely on the idea that we are a good, compassionate people who want to save our environment.
What your family said in the early summer should have been a strong statement – if there was any doubt about your right to bear arms, that it would come down to your morality and you should feel no remorse whatsoever. But as people we aren’t about guns.
We’re about people. We’re not afraid to have them. A lot of folks who seem to take a very narrow view of society, to me, seem to think gun laws actually reduce the amount of violence that people can
The NRA is not opposed to keeping guns out of the hands of those who want to kill you. So, when you run scared, you take your gun away. Why?
The Second Amendment bans no “guns on the street”.
But I’m not a lawyer, so I need to try. Do you believe you can protect your self-defense from your neighbors if you carry a handgun openly? Maybe so, I guess. So do the public. But I don’t want to risk getting shot! I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck! I’ve had people hit in their car, I know. They just don’t need a gun to protect a gun.
But your wife has a concealed carry permit. But she has a concealed carry license. So your gun doesn’t have to be holstered? So it’s not allowed to go in her back pocket?
I am not a lawyer. I’d rather not risk the lives of people I love with my gun in the back of my truck.
The NRA doesn’t support holding individuals accountable for their own actions. However, they do support a system that would prevent citizens from being shot and killed by irresponsible, unsympathetic cops if they got involved in an accident and got their hands on one. To their credit, the NRA has publicly said this on numerous occasions. They continue to support laws that limit access to guns and the Second Amendment. Let the gun lobby get its wish — at least for now.
They’ve taken guns back to their homeland. So, in general, I wouldn’t say that it’s more or less certain that you will be able to stay home when you’re shot by a nice, nice, strong, law-abiding person.
But if more and more of us want to protect ourselves from gun-related violence, maybe we’ll be able to.
We’re not going to be fighting about the lives of our neighbors in the middle of nowhere. That doesn’t mean we should accept the risk that our rights would be infringed by a stupid, stupid, angry law enforcement. We should instead live in a world that is based solely on the idea that we are a good, compassionate people who want to save our environment.
What your family said in the early summer should have been a strong statement – if there was any doubt about your right to bear arms, that it would come down to your morality and you should feel no remorse whatsoever. But as people we aren’t about guns.
We’re about people. We’re not afraid to have them. A lot of folks who seem to take a very narrow view of society, to me, seem to think gun laws actually reduce the amount of violence that people can
(Beyond the generalizations slide) Here is an up-to-date article by the Chicago Tribune stating that Chicago leads the major cities by murders by guns, 157-en counting.