The students hid in fear in their classroom, the door handle rattled for at least five seconds, then came in a person all dressed in black; it wasn’t the principal, it was a person the students and teacher had never seen before. The students’ eyes yelling for mercy, while this person entered the room with a black shiny object in his hand. While this stranger raised the shiny object and pointed at the students, the teacher stood in front of the students. While the students were behind the teacher they began to shed tears and panic in fear. After the teacher hit the ground, one-by-one the students went down with the teacher until all the students’ blood had been poured out on the floor. The parents cry was heard all over the nation.
Gun control has become one of the most debatable issues in American society and even a world-wide debate. In 1791, the second amendment was put into the bill of rights and gives the protection for “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.”( Mantel) After the second amendment, guns have been a historical foundation in America. In the American colonies the right to bear arms was lawful because they had the right to hunt and to have them for self-defense. After in the early 19th century there were the first comprehensive laws prohibiting hand guns. Years later, in 1813 Kentucky and Louisiana became the first two states to ban the right to bear arms. Some seven years later, Indiana had also banned the right to bear arms, and the following two decades the southern states started responding to the violence in the region.
Over the years, many people have misinterpreted the second amendment as a protection of rights to own a gun or be able to use a gun. Article 5 states that the second amendment is not an unlimited right to own guns and those with felonies and with mental illness should be prohibited from owning guns and in public places guns are forbidden. This article states that many people believe that the second amendment was intended to protect gun ownership but it also counters it because the second amendment was actually meant to protect the right of militias to own guns and not the right of individual(Should Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?). As the misinterpretation keeps continuing, many people have lost their lives and this needs to change with gun control laws and actions.
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As the gun ownership of civilians has increased over the years the deaths have also increased, did you know that deaths caused by the guns are in the top 10 for the causes of deaths. The Nation has to make a stand for the enforcement of gun control to be able to establish the United States and the whole world a safe and peaceful Nation as one thriving for one same purpose, to end the incline in deaths over the world. In article, two statistics say, “guns are responsible for about 30,000 deaths a year just in America, more than half of those deaths are suicides” (Gun Ownership with Stricter Controls Could Reduce Gun Violence). Gun control should be enforced because over the year’s guns have been causing problems and many innocent people have paid and it is time to take action and protect this Nation. As the nation takes these decisions, they have to encounter three great factors: reducing firearm homicides, safety, and the Second Amendment.
Supplementing, as the U.S. increases in population and the amount of people that have possession of guns’ increase, the nation has to become safer for the protection around the world. In “Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?” it states that “five women are murdered with guns every day in the United States” (Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?) and about 50% of unintentional fatal shootings have been self-inflicted; and most unintentional firearm deaths have been caused by relatives or friends (Should More Gun Control Laws Be Enacted?) Regarding the topic of safety, these accidental shootings can be prevented by enforcing gun control to protect these people from major accidents that end with people lives. In addition, women have to be protected from men and other people that try doing harm and so gun control acts should present more safety for women around the nation. Gun control laws and actions can be taken to make our nation a safer and better place for all the individuals around the world and our nation needs to take some actions for those that have been a victim of this gun violence.
Athough many attempts have been made to enforce gun control, many have failed, so our nation has to become strong and enforce these laws and actions to prevent homicides, make individuals safer, and help prevent the misinterpretation of the second amendment. Our country has to help prevent more tragedy and become one in thriving to stop gun violence around the nation. Gun control has to become our nation’s number one goal to stop gun violence. Many have tried and failed but as a country trying to bring world peace, change has to happen and enforcement has to thrive and success has to be the goal, and the only way to do this is by taking actions for gun control.
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