Should Assault Weapons Be Banned Essay

Throughout the ages, mankind adapted and survived, one method of survival was the use of weapons.Today, these weapons have evolved, such as assault weapons in the United States. These weapons are available for purchase at any gun store, due to the second amendment of the constitution, which states the right to bear arms, where a side believes that this is a part of their rights, and others believe that it's misinterpreted. This issue is important due to the lives that were taken by them. I will summarize and analyze two articles with different opinions to show which is the best of the two.

Based on the article (assault weapons must be banned) by Eugene (2016), all military style weapons and assault rifles must be banned in the U.S. The article aims to prove that assault weapons should be banned to not end mass killings entirely but, but to at least reduce them in response to the shootings in Orlando. He claims that although the constitution states the right to bear arms, the founding fathers did not imagine these types of weapons with this much power, (“When the farmers wrote arms they were thinking about muskets not high capacity magazines.”) Military weapons should be banned on their purpose alone, and if they are not banned deaths will rise.

The article states that people confuse assault weapons with machine guns, that have the ability to fire more than one bullet with one click. The author (Wrinkle) then states that it's true that these sort of weapons have multiple magazines with multiple bullets, but so does many legal firearms in the U.S today, (“about half of the handguns in the U.S have detachable high capacity magazines.”) Also, assault weapons were used only in 3% of mass shootings in the U.S, (“Rifles account for only 3% for criminal gun