On June 1, 2015, Governor Greg Abbott signed the "campus carry" law which will allow licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns on college campuses. ... Imagine there is a heated debate in your government over immigration, welfare, or even gun control, and a classmate gets so offended that they pull out a handgun and shoots a someone over their different views. ...
The government constantly passes new laws prohibiting certain types of guns, yet homeowners are entitled to have any type of pool that they want. ... If the government is going to have such control of guns, what's next? ... The government along with the media has people believing that these normal, everyday, law-abiding citizens for one reason or another just go berserk, and because a gun was available to them in a moment of uncontrollable rage, it was used. ... Yet the government is still trying to impose more laws, restrictions, and regulations on gun owners instead of using and enfor...
Also, the governments approach to the issues surrounding gun control. ... The government is fighting guns at the wrong level. ... Why, do they have gun control laws? ... But he started taking power from the people, and giving more to the government; and when the government has all the power (do you know what that is called? ... Texas has since lifted these laws. ...
Stricter Gun Laws Complete gun control would virtually eliminate the chances of children getting a hold of their parent's guns. ... These laws would not infringe on anyone's 2nd Amendment right to bear arms. ... The government? ... The majority of our group felt the government was mainly to blame for the legal loopholes in the system that allows minors access to guns. The government should raise the minimum age required to obtain a gun permit and to purchase a gun to 21. ...
The government is not fit to decide what warrants adequate protection. From 1987-1996 Florida passes a right to carry law that reduced their homicide rate by 36 percent. Why shouldn't law-abiding citizens be able to arm themselves with the same weapons that the criminals use? ... Although current laws ban the manufacturing of new assault weapons, they can still sell all guns produced before 1994. ... It will cost an enormous amount of money for the government. ...
Gun control laws should have been changed after the Aurora, Colorado shooting. ... This article is persuading because it gives a lot of statistics on what the people and the government thought about the gun laws before and after the shooting in Colorado, and the numbers are not that much different at all. ... The gun law states that they regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. ... Also the gun law states that they regulate the sale of ammunition. ... Gun control laws should have been changed after the Aurora, Colorado shooting. ...
Many laws have since been passed on the right to bear arms. ... There is a need for gun laws. ... Some gun control laws may save lives. ... I agree with the government that guns can be made safer, and less accessible to children and felons. ... The government has tried to address the gun problem by passing numerous gun laws. ...
The federal government tightly restricts fully automatic guns. ... The government also has regulation on importation on guns brought into the country. ... In this new policy the federal government would mandate laws, concerning gun policy. ... By giving the federal government all the power we will eliminate careless sale of guns. ... The government should increase the penalty of a gun violence offender. ...
The government is to be blamed for this. Government officials continue to create laws that make it difficult to own a gun. Some of these laws have resulted in an increase in crime rates. ... If a person is willing to accept the risk of having a gun in their home or office, they should be permitted to make this choice without government interference. ... Instead of further restriction the rights of law-abiding citizens to own a gun, government should focus on reducing the rate of illegal gun usage. ...
It is said by many young Americans that the government is constantly scheming against its people. ... "The government has too much power," the people claim. Whether the government's control over our lives is hidden or open, it is factual that the government has heavy control over what Americans can and cannot do. ... The grand authors could never have imagined that weapons would one day exist such as the ones that were banned in the 1994 Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. A prime reason for allowing amendments to the U.S. constitution is so the laws can agree with modern society. ...
The bottom line is criminals will have guns and other weapons whether the government takes them away from law - abiding citizens or not. ... Ask yourself this, if the government were to ban the sale and use and ownership of guns would criminals comply with this law? ... But should the government have the right and the power to take guns away from citizens? ... It states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to pe...
This modern debate has not been over the legitimacy of that amendment, but whether existing gun laws are sufficient, or if stricter gun laws need to be imposed. ... Though such an act placed restrictions on licensed, regulated sales of guns, there still remains a problem: the government has yet to enact a law that places restrictions on private, unregulated sales. ... Without a government law that monitors these private, unlicensed sales, guns are constantly falling into the hands of potential ex-convicts who are looking for an easy source of guns. ... By adopting Federalist ideals and creatin...
I believe that the government is wasting time and money trying to take the guns of the citizens of the United States of America. ... This just simply would not work because the only people that would register guns would be the law-abiding citizens. "To sum it up, the only people who will register their firearms will be the law-abiding citizens who, by definition, will not become involved in criminal activity while the felons, being lawbreakers already, simply won't bother." ... This would lose a bunch of money for the states and I really don't think that they would want that As a ...
The second step for these governments is to outlaw the possession of certain types of "dangerous" weapons. ... The final step is for the government to outlaw any private ownership of firearms. ... Thanks to the ignorance of these governments, the most respectful, law-abiding citizens are now helpless to defend themselves against the ever-increasing crime wave that follows. ... One of the possible reasons for the decline in crime in the U.S. is the wider acceptance of concealed carry laws. ... The documentation Hitler created which gave him the power to take the weapons from Jews was cal...
The U.S government has placed some gun control laws, but most of the laws were made to make the general public feel safer in their everyday lives. For instance: the government prohibited a handful of assault weapons, and these weapons are very rarely used in shooting incidents. ... Clintons' law said that every gun sold, should be sold with a trigger lock, so no one would accidently pull the trigger, however this law was never statutory. ... And due to a 400,000 signature petition calling for a stricter firearm law/ gun control President Obama promised that he would tighten the gun laws a...
The Brady Law, which requires a five-day waiting period was passed during the Clinton administration, then on May 5, 1994, the government banned nineteen assault weapons linked to violent crimes. ... "The lesson the Brady Law and assault weapons ban is that the Americans public wants more gun laws not fewer" says Susan Whitmore, communications director for handgun Control Inc. ... According to a poll taken by USA today on December 17, 1993 The majority of gun owners and the public in general favor stricter gun control laws including requiring safety glasses, the Brady law, and bans on assaul...
Rather it entails the fundamental issues of law and government and the rights of every American citizen to enjoy life and pursue happiness. ... His theory thrived on the dissolution of law and government and return to the State of Nature. To paraphrase Hannah Pitkin's 1965 paper, Obligation and Consent I, "What matters to Locke is not really whether one has consented or contracted to obey a government, but whether the government deserves one's consent." ... The problem is not the firearms themselves but rather the unconstrained laws governing the selling and use of fir...
Should America Enforce the Gun Control Law? ... Which goes to show perhaps the gun control law is a good idea. The question that puzzles a lot of people is " is it the governments fault or the peoples fault for all the crimes that are going on in the United States." ... The point is should the gun control law be enforced in the United States? ... If the gun control law is to be enforced the government will take the guns away from the licensed people and leave the criminals with the unlicensed guns. ...
Gun control laws simply make it harder for law-abiding citizens, with proper licenses to obtain a weapon to protect themselves, their family, and their property from criminals. ... Criminals already have illegal firearms, with the current laws, so what would make gun control laws any different? In addition, if the government were to take on the gun control laws, how could the United States get rid of the hundreds of millions of guns that already exist in the community? There are illegal weapons present in America that may not be able to be tracked if the government were to do so. ... In conclu...
The United States government needs to lower the amount of violent crime involving handguns. ... The government can go about eliminating the factor of gun density through the application of the fore mentioned regulations. ... The ILA heavily influences elections and legislation, and are "...a major reason the United States has lagged behind other Western societies in its handgun control laws, although polls show most Americans favor such laws."... Its power lies soft money donations to a political party, as well as other types, to get what they want out of the government legislation. ... As ...
Today is a dangerous time for anyone, whether a criminal or law-abiding citizen, to reside in America. ... Securing the ownership of arms as a right was central to creating a government that would not infringe on the liberty of its citizens. ... Since the Amendment's inception, the government has persisted to uphold it. ... The Brady law also requires a five day waiting period for the sale of handguns. ... The Brady law is a good idea, but ultimately fails in a few ways. ...
At this time, the law states that you need to be 18 or older to purchase a gun. ... The law does not make any extreme restrictions. ... The government cannot protect the general public from violence. Due to the large number of citizens in the United States, the government cannot promise safety. For the time being, "The government cannot guarantee the safety of its citizens. ...
Such is yet another example of an interfering and controlling Government telling and forcing others to perform unsafe actions. ... In the state of Florida, there is a 6-month waiting period, while a complete background check is done, before you can own a firearm and the background check involves looking for mental status and any prior convictions (MyFlorida.com/Government/Firearm/Laws: Registered Member 2003). ... Eventually (or possibly already has happened) a trigger lock requirement law will persuade someone to use such an unsafe device and through negligence or ignorance cause someone&#...
Laws can be created so that accidents like these will be prohibited. But there are reasons why the government has not created such laws. " Laws are not the same as personal or individual morality some things are legal, yet are considered immoral to some people" (Hricik 607). ... And these maybe the only people the government should allow to have guns. ... Today, the gun laws vary from state to state. ... The gun laws should not have to vary from state to state. ...
The use of guns and the right to bear arms and restrictions on guns start with the government. ... "The presence or absence of gun laws in the United States rest with the political process involving Congress, the presidency, and state and local governments."" ... "The U.S. has 20,000 gun laws on record today."" Even though the U.S. has more gun laws than any other country, the laws are less restrictive than those in other countries. ... (Long 28) "Because guns play such a major role in violent crime, a number of government officials and private citizens call for gun control as a remedy for the...
