...Theme: This cartoons theme is based on the current gun law debate in America. It’s responding to the current gun epidemic and multiple shooting in schools due to the easy access to guns and other weapons. This topic has always been debated but is re surfacing due to Obama pushing for more control over gun laws. Characters: In the cartoon it shows two people in full colour and 2 other kids in the background almost like a shadow. One of the characters says “ Mummy put it in my lunch box in case i have to protect myself”. This shows how irresponsible Americans are getting with their guns how would a child that young know what calls for a child to protect themselves. If another child is bullying him does he deserve to get shot ? that is what...
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...“Gun Laws in the U.S.” “Guns don’t kill people, people do!” This slogan is used by many gun right advocates in America today. I couldn’t agree more! People kill people during the commission of crimes, in the heat of passion, or through a series of innocent, yet deadly mistakes. Gun right advocates continuously lobby the legislature into submitting bills that would allow John Q. Public to legally carry firearms onto college campuses. Firearm possession does nothing more than create a false sense of security to their owners. Nevertheless, gun right advocates believe they can make it safer and reduce crime by introducing firearms into the campus environment. This introduction is not only dangerous, but accidental discharges and other seemingly innocent misdeeds could cost you your life. First, “There’s no epidemic of campus violence,” said Jack Levin, director of the Brudnick Center on Conflict and Violence at Northeastern University in Boston (Cohen, 2007, p 1). “In fact, there are so few homicides on college campuses that you’re much safer there than you are in almost any other venue” (Cohen, 2007, p 1). Other experts agree that of all the places young adults spend their time, a college campus likely provides the largest safety net (Cohen, 2007, p 1). College campuses employ a multilayer approach into keeping campuses safe and free of crime. Communication is the key to keeping campuses safe. Most large universities use smart phone apps and emergency callboxes...
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...Navarrete Essay 3 April 23, 2015 Gun Laws Law breaking and guns, the two seem to always be associated with each other. But are the two really connected? Do laws placing restrictions on firearm ownership really protect the average citizen from other citizens? These are only some of the questions many citizens and lawmakers are asking themselves when setting about to create gun control laws. The debate over gun control is always changing, and is in need of some improvement before all hell breaks lose. Clearly this debate still goes on today and is the very reasoning for the formation of gun control laws. Guns are extremely potent weapons. They can cause destruction, cause death, and most importantly, cause a city to retaliate. However, they can be used to defend and protect. No matter what way you look at it, guns are powerful tools, not only physically but also in society. As college students, it is important to stay up-to- date of the current events and issues circulating our country today, one of which is the controversial issue of gun control. It is extremely important to pay attention to where gun control laws are headed. With all the recent shootings in the past years, there is something to be said about how easy it is to acquire a gun. The courses they take will not only affect our nation and society but also the future and the families that plan to raise children. The gun war has been going on for years and new actions...
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...Davis Final Draft Gun Control: The Stricter the Safer! Gun control, due to rights under the Second Amendment, has been a controversial issue for centuries. The Second Amendment of the Constitution 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.” Had the amendment simply said the right to bear arms, gun control would not be a controversial issue to this day. The debate is whether the Second Amendment is stating that each and every U.S citizen has a right to keep and bear arms, or whether it is stating only members of the militia have the right to keep and bear arms. If the Second Amendment was referring to each person individually, then it would have never mentioned the militia. According to Warren Burger, the late U.S Supreme Court Chief (in regards to the Second Amendment), “‘This has been the subject of one of the greatest pieces of fraud on the American public by special interests that I have ever seen in my lifetime’" (Durston 1). The United States is one of the leading countries with high suicide and homicide rates, and if we don’t put higher restrictions on these lax gun laws, we will continue to have one of the worst homicide and suicide rates in the world. Some people would say that people have the right to own a gun to protect themselves and their homes. Self-defense is the number one reason why some people think we should have guns. According to Kenneth...
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...Gun Control: Stricter Gun Laws I think that we should have stricter gun law / gun control. Even though i don't think guns are completely bad, i still think we need stricter laws. I believe that guns don't kill people, people kill people. But i feel like just ANYONE can get a gun if they wanted to. So we can't blame the gun for everything, but i feel like the death (murder)/ suicide rate would go down. In 2010 there were 19,392 firearm related suicides and 11,078 firearm related murders in the US. In 2012 there were 6,371 suicides from a handgun and 8,855 total firearm related murders JUST in the US. In 2012 64% of all gun-related deaths were suicides. So the percentage of suicides from guns are going up. So that makes me think that the...
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...citizens of the United States should legally possess a gun has been an issue present all throughout history. With the ongoing violence and crime involving guns, may people, including political figures, believe stricter laws on guns will lower the rate of gun related violence. But who should be the one to determine these laws? Who is to say these laws and bans would even work? Each state has their own individual law when it comes to owning a gun. Should each state continue to have their laws, or should the government set a national law regarding the ownership of guns? If these said laws were to take effect, would those committing these acts of gun crime obey, or continue to wreak havoc? Which raises another important question; instead of the laws on guns themselves being more firm, what about the sentencing to those who use the weapon in order to harm other citizens? Would a harsher sentencing for gun crimes lower their rate, or simply be another consequence these criminals just deal with? Gun related violence is a rising issue in America. Putting a ban, or even limitations, on guns owned my citizens would do more harm than good. Many anti-gun groups, like the ones in Connecticut, have succeeded in passing a law that will reduce the amount of ammunition held inside a gun’s magazine. Since the passing of this law, the debate on whether it will bring positive or negative repercussions has been at a constant. The law came into play due to the December 2012 shooting massacre...
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...Do you ever think to yourself the person right next to your or behind you or anywhere could have a gun on them? Well Because in 1791 the Second Amendment was created and added to the Constitution. It says that humans are allowed to carry a weapon (Smith, 1). In the 90´s there was an assault rifle ban which gave manufactures a virtual blueprint of how to change their weapons slightly to make them “legal¨ (Hamilton,2). In 1994 the Brady Law went into effect. The law was named after James Brady, the secretary of president Reagan who was badly injured in the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan (Smith, 1). The law made it so that you need to get a background check inorder to buy a gun, just to be a little more safe (Smith, 1). Today there are about 280 million firearms in the private hands of the U.S, and ⅓ of american households claim to own a gun (Smith, 1). Today gun control has many social, economic, and political impacts. Within the gun control laws there are many social...
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...Gun are one of the top items bought in stores that are easily accessible, but little do the people know is that most of the time guns are used on people to create a crime, other than protection. Maybe the best idea to keep this problem from going on is make gun laws stricter make it to where you need to pass a test to register for a gun, or maybe better yet stop supplying so many guns at one time. Gun laws are something every country needs in order to keep stable economy, because selling guns to easily will help the american citizens commit crimes that could ruin many people lives. About 96 lives are lost per year just from shootings that occur from buying guns easily or illegally that can be stopped because the government can make the process more difficult and crack down on the dark part of the internet where you can also order guns illegally without having to go through the little process the U.S. has of now. On average about 220 million guns are purchased every year because the easy process that has been...
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...Gun related incidents have become a huge problem in America, and too many US citizens are losing their lives to guns. Guns take the lives of American citizens every day, from shooting massacres, to a child playing with a gun he had access to in his house. More people in America are killed by guns than terrorists. In fact over 30,000 people are killed by guns each year. Last year, only 17 people were killed by terrorist attacks (Terror). You can see that correlation on a daily basis as well. 3 people died in the Boston Marathon because of the terrorist attack staged there, that same day, in the U.S., 11 people were killed by guns (Terror). More American citizens are being killed by other American citizens armed to the tee, than by America’s common enemy. If you look at it that way it’s like we are doing the terrorist’s work for them. Every time there is a push to end gun violence there is an equal push back to keep things the same which...
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...lives of 26 students and teachers. Cases like these have prompted the Obama Administration as well as the entire nation to reconsider what laws and restrictions need to be placed with regard to gun access and control without interfering with the constitutional rights of citizens. It is a known fact that America was produced into a nation based on the ideologies of freedom and democracy; with the constitution as the heart of its central government. The basic rights of citizens stated in the amendments are not only unambiguous but also eminently conserved by the Judicial System and Supreme Courts, which makes it a crucial challenge to modify, despite having national catastrophes that leave the government questioning their responsibilities with regard to public safety. Guns are a huge presence on the American landscape, no doubt. With an estimated 300 million firearms privately owned in the U.S., we practically have a weapon for every citizen. In 1994, President Clinton signed a ten year assault weapons ban into law but industries continued to manufacture civilian versions of military rifles. According to author Paul Berrett, “The prohibition actually helped transform what had been a marginal product for most manufacturers into a gun-rights poster child, celebrated by the National Rifle Association and sought after by a much bigger share of the gun-buying public.” Since the ban’s expiration in 2004,...
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...New York’s Influence on the Federal Gun Law Since the tragic events in Aurora, Colorado and more recently Newtown Connecticut the talks of stricter gun laws has become a major controversy and political topic. According to an Editorial from the New York Times, New York Leads on Gun Control Editorial, the state of New York has created a bill that will further make guns harder to obtain and own. The bill expands the ban of assault rifles to also include semiautomatic weapons with detachable magazines. In addition the bill will decrease magazine clips to 7 rounds instead of 10 rounds and would require gun licenses to be renewed every 5 years. With these restrictions the bill requires all dealer to provide background checks and it also creates a data base for gun permit and a registry for ammunition sales. The most controversial part of the bill is it would allow a medical professional to declare that someone is harm to themselves of others leading to a seizer of their guns. While this part of the law is still being discussed if it is approved this part of the bill could go against doctor-patient confidentiality. If the federal government used New York‘s bill as a model they can decrease gun involved accidents or massacres by limiting the amount of ammo, and providing a way to track gun sales and permits. In both the Newtown and Aurora massacres automatic weapons were used and the killers stockpiled ammunition. In the New York gun law it will decrease the amount of rounds...
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...The debate over gun laws is said to have started around 1963 but, it hasn’t been brought into much spotlight until recently. With the recent increase in gun violence and the deaths of many, including the 17 students from Florida, the gun law debate has become more intense and many more people looking for them to come to a decision. Everyone has their own opinion on where they believe the gun law debate should end with, I believe it should end with stricter gun laws. First of all, people with mental issues are getting their hands on guns, when they shouldn’t for the safety of themselves and others. Mentally ill people can be mentally unfit to possess a firearm. Each state has their own requirements to own a gun. Some places don’t require a...
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...tighten gun ownership laws? April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech campus, 32 people shot and killed. Oct. 16, 1991, Columbine High School 13 people shot and killed. These are just some of the many traumatic events across America involving both guns and death. The USA has always respected the thought of ‘everyone has a right to bear arms’, although some people think it’s a good idea to take that right and exploit it. Resulting in shootings like these. This has been a major issue over the last 15 years or so but even back in 1789 when a group of 39 men known as the founding fathers included this right in the US constitution, people have been finding ways to take that right and tear it apart because the law has never been up to scratch....
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...Gun violence in the United States may not be as sever as it once was, but it is again highly publicized because of the recent school shooting. With the recent mass murders that have happened in the United States, the question arises about how to prevent these acts from happening again. Some people believe that we should take away all guns while others believe stricter gun laws should be enacted. The purpose of this paper is to explore the gun control laws that we have in the United States as well as their effectiveness as a deterrent for gun violence. Another aspect that we will be looking at is whether stricter gun laws would help prevent gun violence any better. It is apparent that the gun control laws in the United States do not act as a...
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...Have you ever wonder why criminal are able to get their hands on gun even with so many charges and felony? Even though there is a background check in most gun store people are still able to obtain gun legally as long as they have money. Guns can easily be purchased in united state because united state does not have very strict law on gun. Anyone can get their hands on a gun even if they committed a felony or have a mental health problem due to the lack of government involvement, and background check. Guns are easily being purchased causing many shooting over the year. Research found that “Out of 50 states, 35 do not require that gun owners hold a license, obtain a purchase permit, or register their weapons.” This is a causes a massive problem...
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