Background Checks Advantages
Family and friends can be one of the most important things in people’s lives. If you could help keep them safe would you do it? Even though you can’t keep them one hundred percent safe there is a way to increase their safety from guns. You have a chance to make America safer than it has been in a long time. Support background checks on criminals and people with destructive tendencies. Background checks on gun purchases can help reduce gun related deaths and make it harder for future shooters to purchase guns. Although there are other ways to reduce mass shootings, background checks are the most effective. Background checks have been in the conversation of reducing mass shootings but people against these checks have said that they don’t actually
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Background checks could have guns taken away from previous gun owners. Also, there would be a long process to buy a gun that could get responsible gun owners upset about background checks. Gun owners will argue that it is against the second amendment(The Right to Bear Arms). They will say that it is against the amendment because not everyone will have the right to bear arms because the government feels certain people are not safe to own one.
Background checks are not the only way to reduce mass shootings. Studies have shown that the media has a big influence on events. “Aside from the act itself, there is no greater aim for the mass killer than to see his own grievances broadcast far and wide. Many shooters directly cite the words of prior killers as inspiration”(Schulman). If the media where to watch what they broadcast to only point out the facts. Even though most people want to hear it all, it could be a way to reduce ‘copy cats’.
This will never happen. There will never be enough people to agree to this because too many people would agree that that is news that needs to be spread across the nation. Another reason this won’t happen is because when this news is released to the public, people around the nation donate money to that certain area to
Background checks could have guns taken away from previous gun owners. Also, there would be a long process to buy a gun that could get responsible gun owners upset about background checks. Gun owners will argue that it is against the second amendment(The Right to Bear Arms). They will say that it is against the amendment because not everyone will have the right to bear arms because the government feels certain people are not safe to own one.
Background checks are not the only way to reduce mass shootings. Studies have shown that the media has a big influence on events. “Aside from the act itself, there is no greater aim for the mass killer than to see his own grievances broadcast far and wide. Many shooters directly cite the words of prior killers as inspiration”(Schulman). If the media where to watch what they broadcast to only point out the facts. Even though most people want to hear it all, it could be a way to reduce ‘copy cats’.
This will never happen. There will never be enough people to agree to this because too many people would agree that that is news that needs to be spread across the nation. Another reason this won’t happen is because when this news is released to the public, people around the nation donate money to that certain area to