Jael Uscanga
Chris Kroh
POLS 1101
10/23/2017
Gun control and gun Rights
In America, the use of firearms has been a part of the society since its birth. Throughout history the citizens of the Unites states have used firearms to protect this nation, their families, hunt for food and participate in various sporting activities. The issue of Guns and gun control is controversial. Weighing the rights and liberties of the citizen against the welfare and safety of the public. This debate has always been an unsettled balancing act. gun control is one of these hectic issues that has both sides of this topic firmly entrenched in their opinions. Some parties are in favor of gun ownership and the freedom to use and keep arms, they rely on the fact that
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I believe that guns are not weapons, they are to be used as tools. How they are used is up to the person holding it. Guns themselves can't do anything it is the person with the gun that decides where the bullet goes. I would want America to take example of what Australia accomplished after such an incident. For instance, less than two weeks after the Port Arthur massacre, all six Australian states agreed to enact the same sweeping gun laws banning semi-automatic rifles and shotguns - weapons that can kill many people quickly. They also put more hurdles between prospective gun owners and their weapons. Australia has 28-day waiting periods, thorough background checks, and a requirement to present a "justifiable reason" to own a gun. Unlike in the US, self-protection is not accepted as a justifiable reason to own a gun. In the 21 years since the laws were passed, about one million semi-automatic weapons - roughly one third of the country's firearms - were sold back to the government and destroyed, nearly halving the number of gun-owning households in Australia. The number of Australia's mass shootings dropped from 11 in the decade before 1996, to zero in the years since, (Beck,