The Man Who Was Almost A Man Essay

Gun control laws are just as old or older than the Second Amendment authorized in 1791. On June 26, 2008 the District of Columbia v. Heller US Supreme Court majority estimation, Justice Antonin Scalia, LLB, said “ like most rights, the right secures by the Second Amendment is not unlimited; from Blackstone through the 19th century cases, commentators and courts routinely explained that the right was not a right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatsoever purpose and nothing in our opinion should be taken to cast doubt on longstanding prohibition on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill, or laws forbidding the carrying of firearms in sensitive places such as schools and government buildings, or laws imposing conditions and qualifications on the commercial sale of arms.
In the story “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” is about a boy named Dave, who trying to overcome the struggles of life with numerous hurdles to become an established adult. While working for a man who bullies and ridicule him, Dave believes that purchasing a gun will end his adolescence and transform him into a real man. While having the
gun Dave would soon discover that owning a gun, would only bring him more complications and the affliction of obligation and by having the gun within his possession made the change from adolescence to adulthood. With him having not any type of experience with guns or gun safety, Dave would soon find out that his actions have consequences and that he must take reasonability for his actions and by shooting the property of Mr. Hawkins, Dave have to work for two years as repayment.
As the gun brings Dave into a commitments and obligations that he did not want became his definition of manhood and he does not like the repercussion that came from his actions, so he decides to leave so he would not have any commitments for his actions, and while owning the gun he soon realizes that it is a bigger liability than he thought and by leaving the problems that he created only shows that he is not ready to be an adult and he still keeps the gun and not thinking of the problems the gun have already caused but instead of how it is still helping him into adulthood.
By having guns does not define a person into adulthood to become a man or a woman because by having guns can only lead to the path of destruction or crime and there is no turning back from shooting someone, armed robbery, kidnapping and many more cause that path is a lone dark road and there is no point of turning back once you are surrounded by the darkness.
With the control of guns, it is the 12th leading cause of all deaths and topping hypertension, Parkinson’s Disease, automobile accidents and drownings. With children under the age of fifteen are nine times more likely to die of a gun accident and over two hundred people goes are rushed to the emergency room for gun wounds. With the study from the American Journal of Public Health have found that with the legal purchase of a gun/firearm is associated with an increased risk of violent death.
By having a gun/ firearms can easily be stolen and used as criminal activity, with guns being a product that can be easily stolen and sold at the a relatively high fraction of the initial cost and the presence of guns/firearms can actually be serves as a stimulus to be a concealed weapon and would never be used in the furtherance of a crime and it is the same if the gun/firearms was stolen. With dealing with such law the background checks are required because in a system is each individual who owns a gun with their address and if they have a criminal record or not.
With too many criminals with the purchase of guns/firearms legally and use them to commit crimes, a background checks and mandatory waiting periods help to deter criminals while negligibly inhibiting us. Current gun registration laws are not adequate for law enforcement. To help prevent and to help solve crimes, guns should be registered and characterized before they are used to commit a crime. The only ones that would be threatened by this policy would be criminals. With the possession of semi-automatic weapons are intended for military use and have no business in the hands of civilians for either self-protection or sport. Guns don't kill people, people do. We need to concentrate on the values and morals of our citizens and at the role the media plays in glorifying violence and the lack of respect for law.
Once the in violent and gun crime in the U.S. have decreases but since the early 1990s, even though the number of firearms has increased by about 10 million every year. There’s no simple correspondence between the number of firearms in private hands and the amount of gun crime, and I often find it somewhat strange that there seems to be a perception that things are worse than ever when, in reality, things are really better than they’ve been for decades.
Many people want to ban so-called assault weapons because they believe these firearms are uniquely dangerous, or the same as machine guns. That is not happening any time soon, guns/firearms at least the ones available to civilians are like all semi-automatics and fire one bullet with one pull of the trigger. What makes an firearm different than a regular rifle are the cosmetic “military-like” features, such as a bayonet mount or pistol grip and so forth, none of which have functional significance. Firearms are not more powerful, they do not shoot more bullets, and they do not shoot faster. We would not be a safer society if we could eliminate all of the firearm because people could substitute for them non-firearm that are exactly the same.
Gun control is based on the faulty notion that ordinary American citizens are too clumsy and ill-tempered to be trusted with weapons.
Only through the blatant abrogation of explicit constitutional rights is gun control even possible. It must be enforced with such violations of individual rights as intrusive search and seizure and the most severely victimizes those who most need weapons for self-defense. With various gun control proposals on different agendas with the including of licensing, waiting periods, and bans on “Saturday night specials” are of little or if any value as crime-fighting measures because with the banning of guns to reduce crime makes more logic as banning alcohol to reduce drunk driving and with the persuasive evidence shows that civilian gun ownership can be a powerful deterrent to
crime.