American Gun Rights
Under Fire: The Rights of American Gun Owners In the world that humanity has constructed it has left itself vulnerable to threats that nobody could comprehend: terror, mass murderers, chemical warfare, and numerous others. These fears have caused a vast rift in the population of the United States. People just do not feel safe anymore and how the population is dealing with their fear is coming across numerous fields; the biggest area under siege is the Second Amendment. In this debate on United States citizens gun rights, there are two main groups, the gun rights supporters and the ones who argue for gun control/ban measures. What gun control advocates fail to understand is that crime is decreasing as gun density is increasing, the amount
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It does not matter what type of deterrents or laws that you put in place. It will not affect these shooters. People often talk about the criminals and what they would do with firearms, but what about all of the responsible gun owners in the United States. There are two main factors that drive the sale of guns and they are the need for self-defense and fear of tougher gun legislation (Koenig 2). It does not matter what state one looks at it seems to be the same across the board (Koenig 3). Numerous people everyday carry firearms for self-defense, some of them not even being police officers. The community who advocate really harsh gun legislation cannot get it past one of two places. These people struggle in the Senate were multiple proposed assault weapons bans have been shot down (Koenig 10). If gun control even struggles in the Supreme Court. In 2008 the Court choose to uphold the constitution and fight a District of Columbia gun ban (Spitzer 149). Not only do some of the gun control advocates want a total ban but the want the laws we already have to be harsher. Right now we have laws that work and make sense for law abiding citizens. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits the interstate transfer of firearms which does limit criminals access (Spitzer 99). Then on top of that, there is the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act which mandates background checks (Koenig 8). The background checks that are used are run through the NICS system, a system run by the FBI to make sure there are no criminal charges against your name (Koenig 8). These are just the federal restriction let alone all of the state responsibilities imposed on gun owners (Koenig
It does not matter what type of deterrents or laws that you put in place. It will not affect these shooters. People often talk about the criminals and what they would do with firearms, but what about all of the responsible gun owners in the United States. There are two main factors that drive the sale of guns and they are the need for self-defense and fear of tougher gun legislation (Koenig 2). It does not matter what state one looks at it seems to be the same across the board (Koenig 3). Numerous people everyday carry firearms for self-defense, some of them not even being police officers. The community who advocate really harsh gun legislation cannot get it past one of two places. These people struggle in the Senate were multiple proposed assault weapons bans have been shot down (Koenig 10). If gun control even struggles in the Supreme Court. In 2008 the Court choose to uphold the constitution and fight a District of Columbia gun ban (Spitzer 149). Not only do some of the gun control advocates want a total ban but the want the laws we already have to be harsher. Right now we have laws that work and make sense for law abiding citizens. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibits the interstate transfer of firearms which does limit criminals access (Spitzer 99). Then on top of that, there is the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act which mandates background checks (Koenig 8). The background checks that are used are run through the NICS system, a system run by the FBI to make sure there are no criminal charges against your name (Koenig 8). These are just the federal restriction let alone all of the state responsibilities imposed on gun owners (Koenig