Freedom To Bear Arms Essay

The controversy between maintaining the freedom to bear arms and reforming gun control laws to restrict ownership is and has been a topic of debate for quite a while. The topic is not old, and has been in the air perhaps before this generation was born. What really opened up the eyes of people was the event of the shooting located at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012, where 20 children and 6 adults were killed that day. Where Brian Doyle writes an essay about staff members Dawn Hochsprug, and Mary Sherlach who sacrificed their lives that day to save the lives of the rest of the children and adults. Now, Doyle writes the essay specifically on Dawn and Mary, and how they “jumped or leapt or lunged”(174) towards the shooter, and their how actions were ever so heroic to the people at the scene, and
If the safety one’s self is more important than somebody else’s, then there’s something incorrect about this amendment. If those who are unable to posses a gun can be promised to have the same safety as one who does, then the world can play fair. And it is possible; as James Stancliffe says in his essay: Gun Act As a Force Multiplier, Endangering Everyone, Stancliffe states that “Many other European nations, along with other countries, such as Australia, New Zealand and Canada, have implemented some degree of gun control”(185) and that in Britain, most police officers do not even carry guns.
Overall, I do believe that gun control needs to be enforced a bit more in the States. Though guns do give some sort of protection to us beings, they do not promise protection for those who do not own guns. Guns can be accidentally misused and injure, possibly kill people, and can do more harm than protection. So if anything, I would like to go along like the other countries like Britain, and Australia, and go gunless. If they can do it, we