Should Gun Control Laws Be Revised Essay

Gun control laws should be revised. By definition, provided by the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, gun control is the regulation of the selling, owning, and use of guns. There has been many cases where guns have been in the wrong hands. These situations have occurred in schools (high school, grade school and even college), movie theaters, churches, and even U.S military bases. Is it the right to bear arms or is it the right to free murder? Nowadays, many people can go out and purchase a gun with their leisure. But not everyone is using it for self-defense. When there are mass murders, the weapon of choice is a gun and the outburst springs from anger, rage, and hate or to seek revenge. Their motives are not to protect themselves but kill others and endanger people. After many tragedies there is always light shined on the issue immediately after it happens, but is it ever fixed? Gun control laws are putting people at risk and are having many people fear for their lives and their loved one lives. They fear that they could be saying their last ‘goodbyes’ and ‘I love you’.
The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was not effectual, this law banned many semi-automatic weapons but not all of them, mostly AR-15s and AK-47s models were found to be banned. This law also banned weapons that was able to carry
This massacre was conducted by two students, Dylan Klebold (17) and Eric Harris (18), who were also students that attended the school. The perpetrators’ motives were initially not to open fire but to set a bomb off, however that did not work out so they resorted to using their guns. The guns they used were sold to them illegally since they were still underage. This chaotic massacre not only wounded more than twenty students but this left 13 students and a teacher dead. Would you not want your children going to a safe school and coming back home safe and