There are those who believe that society is a safer place when guns are not a part of it. They feel as if making laws and regulations will keep them safe when they go to bed at night. However, an important aspect that many of them fail to address is the fact that criminals do not obey such laws. Criminals will do whatever they want, regardless of what some paper says they should and should not do. Therefore, making more and more regulations on guns is only stripping away the only safety against crime that law-abiding citizens can rely on: their own firearm. This essay addresss the ineffectiveness of various laws and solutions proposed by gun control advocates.
Almost every massacre involving guns has occurred in an area commonly referred to as a “gun-free zone.” As the name implies, in all of these areas, law-abiding citizens cannot equip themselves with any firearm to use for personal defense. To a criminal, this is a target-rich environment similar to the way a wolf may feel in a field of unsupervised sheep. The movie theatre in Aurora, CO, where a sole criminal ended his shooting spree with 82 casualties, was a
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According to Feinstein, having a detachable magazine and one or more of these features automatically makes a regular firearm an “assault weapon.” None of these “military characteristics” make the bullet stronger, faster, harder, or more lethal in any way. Both rifles seen in the image above are Ruger 10/22s. The only difference between the two is cosmetic appearance. Both fire the same .22 bullets out of the same 1:16” twist barrel from the same 10 round magazines (Sturm, 2013). However, according to Feinstein’s “assault weapons” ban, the bottom rifle is infinitely more dangerous and lethal than the one above it. Coincidentally, both rifles would still fall within the parameters of other bills proposed by gun control advocates. (Feinstein,