The topic of gun ownership remains a source of intense debate in the United States today. Proponents to revising gun control laws argue mainly of the dangers of widespread gun ownership. The opponents usually argue individual rights of self-protection and their right to bear arms. What really are the problems of current gun control issues? Does the increase in mass school shootings indicate the time to change our ways? Mass shooting may possibly even provide the worst basis for supporting gun control (Kleck). Is there a connection between the crime rates and gun control and how can we directly apply them to the problems society currently faces today? There is even the possibility that the laws being brought into question may even be the wrong path. Instead of trying to force the removal of guns from being owned, why don't we try to figure out why most of the public carries guns in the first place? There are many different arguments regarding the topic of gun control and they will be evaluated through this paper. .
One may begin to understand a bit more about the problem some find in the new gun control laws by knowing more about the Second Amendment. The question is whether revising gun control laws will interfere with the Second Amendment. The Second Amendment reads as the followings, "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"(Green). The United States is currently protected by a trained volunteer military force, rather than a civilian militia, is the Second Amendment valid anymore? Does the Second Amendment give the rights to arms to supply a civilian militia or does it entail any citizen to have the right to bear arms (Green). Only regulations of firearms that impair the state's ability to arm their militias can be said to be unconstitutional. The reason is because the Second Amendment protects the interests of the state, not the individual (Green).
