Gun Control

Gun Control

Thesis Statement

To gun control advocates, the opposition is out of touch with the times, misinterprets the Second Amendment, or is lacking in concern for the problems of crime and violence.

Introduction

The debate over gun control has been hard fought and intense. To gun control opponents, advocates are naive in their faith in the power of regulation to solve social problems, bent on disarming the American citizen for ideological or social reasons, or moved by irrational hostility to firearms and gun enthusiasts. "Guns don't kill people, people kill people. The second and third sections should be a

Discussion

"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 in fringed (Andrews 2002)." This is the Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. With this single sentence, laws, debates, fights and controversies have begun, ended and are still being fought. Gun control can be defined as "government limitation of the purchase and ownership of firearms". In the early days of our country there was little gun control.

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Guns were used both as protection from Indian incursions as well as tools for hunting. It wasn't until 1934 with the National Firearms Act, passed by Franklin D. Roosevelt, which "prohibited the sale and manufacture of automatic-fire weapons like machine guns, short-barreled shotguns and rifles, parts of guns like silencers, as well as other "gadget-type" firearms hidden in canes."(Spitzer 2008) This act came about ...