The Controversy Of Gun Control

The controversy of guns and gun control has been around for decades, and people have been making laws on this topic since 1791. There are multiple positions you can take on this topic, and most of those positions have sufficient evidence and reasoning for why it's good. With all the laws/restrictions on guns today, it's clear guns must have some effect on our nation. The definition of gun control is "laws or policies that regulate the manufacture, sale, transfer, possession, modification, or use of firearms". To summarize, gun control is the laws that let governemnt control the purchase and possesion of firearms. Due to multiple reasons, this idea has spawned much controversy. The first reason some people find it controversial is because they
law. This simply isn't true, but many people believe that's what gun control is. The weapons that are targeted by law makers are over-the-top dangerous and weapons that can be easily hidden by most people's standards. The official term for this is "semi-auto assault guns". In addition, magazines with considerably large ammo counts were banned. To understand the banning of these types of firearms, you must first understand the background. This ban on these types of guns start in 1989 when 34 children and a teacher were shot in Stockton using an AK-47 assault rifle. Later in 1993 the "California Street Shooting" also contributed to the ban. The shooter used a TEC-9 to shoot 6 people. The TEC-9 is fairly small and easy to hide, while considerably dangerous at the same time. In 1993, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan proposed to the U.S. House of Representatives to support this ban, and as evidence they used a CNN poll. The poll discovered 77% of Americans also supported the ban on these weapons. Considering that big percentage, it's clear most Americans agreed with the ban at the time. Now 'assault weapons' are thrown into three categories: rifles, pistols, shotguns. On top of the requirements from before, if a gun has two or more of these attachments, it is banned. This is to prevent over the top weapons. For rifles to be banned, it must have two or more of
Four laws that effected the restrictions and use of firearms was the second amendment, the gun control act of 1968, shotgun/rifle ban in District of Columbia in 1976, and the July 1977 policy in District of Columbia. The second amendment is one of the most important assets to the debate of gun control. As stated before, it is one of the largest causes of controversy and people from both sides of the debate use evidence from it to support their claim. The second amendment states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed". The way the message is delivered can be vague and people are unsure what it completely means. For people that are against gun control, the term "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed". They use this to prove that the government has no right to infringe or restrict people's rights to own and utilize guns. On the other hand, people who support gun control also have evidence from this amendment. They can use the line "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state". They can use this line to argue that owning guns was only meant for security and militia purposes only. Another significant law in history revolving around gun control was the "gun control act of 1968" . This law gave