Gun Control (Synthesis Paper)
The current gun control laws should be strictly enforced to avoid creating new laws. News laws make it harder on law abiding citizens to purchase firearms, ammunition, and magazines/clips. Some feel it would decrease gun violence by creating new laws. This is unfair to thousands of people who are gun advocates, including myself.
Hundreds of thousands of people own a gun, if not more than one gun. In order to become a gun owner, there are legal steps to be followed in order to earn a permit. These steps are created due to laws that have been put into place, and have to be followed in order to be a valid owner. At eighteen you can legally purchase certain firearms. You can also earn your concealed carrying permit. This permit allows you to carry a firearm. At twenty-one you are allowed to purchase a handgun, and as long as you have your permit you can carry your handgun on your person. There are several more laws than these simple, common sense laws. Although gun laws help keep this nation safer, the laws can be unfair to many responsible citizens who have earned their right to carry their firearm. An example of a group of people who are against gun control laws is the National Rifle Association. (Scalia, 2011) They are against these laws because they feel the laws violate the second amendment right. (Reassessing, 1991) The second amendment right was created in the seventeen-hundreds, when our country was first being founded. William Lambert created the amendment. The amendment was adopted into our constitution on December 15th, 1971. (Wikipedia, 2011) The constitution help create what laws we have in place today. The second amendment is basically a right Americans are born with, and are proud to be able to have the right to this amendment. No one should be able to totally change an amendment like the second one. It is old, and it is a part of our Country’s history. America never would have been the same if this amendment was never created.
Hundreds of thousands of people own a gun, if not more than one gun. In order to become a gun owner, there are legal steps to be followed in order to earn a permit. These steps are created due to laws that have been put into place, and have to be followed in order to be a valid owner. At eighteen you can legally purchase certain firearms. You can also earn your concealed carrying permit. This permit allows you to carry a firearm. At twenty-one you are allowed to purchase a handgun, and as long as you have your permit you can carry your handgun on your person. There are several more laws than these simple, common sense laws. Although gun laws help keep this nation safer, the laws can be unfair to many responsible citizens who have earned their right to carry their firearm. An example of a group of people who are against gun control laws is the National Rifle Association. (Scalia, 2011) They are against these laws because they feel the laws violate the second amendment right. (Reassessing, 1991) The second amendment right was created in the seventeen-hundreds, when our country was first being founded. William Lambert created the amendment. The amendment was adopted into our constitution on December 15th, 1971. (Wikipedia, 2011) The constitution help create what laws we have in place today. The second amendment is basically a right Americans are born with, and are proud to be able to have the right to this amendment. No one should be able to totally change an amendment like the second one. It is old, and it is a part of our Country’s history. America never would have been the same if this amendment was never created.
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