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The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

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With the consistent occurrence of mass shootings and firearm violence, the topic of gun control remains a controversial issue in modern American society. A subfaction of this conversation is the role assault weapons play in the overall loss of life attributed to gun violence, and whether or not these types of firearms are protected under the second amendment. While both sides of this debate hold valid arguments, due to their intense militaristic capabilities and frequent role in mass shoots, a ban on all assault weapons should be enacted.
The first problem that arises when discussing assault weapons is the fact that there is no definitive definition of what classifies as an assault weapon. The most general description is any weapon with “high ammunition capacity and enhanced control during rapid fire (XXx)”. They can be either automatic or semiautomatic, although automatic firearms have been banned from civilian use since the Firearms Owners’ Protection Act of 1986(XXX). Semiautomatic …show more content…

Under this bill it was “unlawful for a person to manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon”(SSSS). While this bill was created to combat gun violence, it remained too vague to be effective, allowing for gun companies to exploit several loopholes within the bill. By changing one or two features of a firearm and replacing with very similar features, many guns outlawed under this act were able to remain legal SSS. The bill also used a grandfather clause, making any guns purchased before the passing of the bill legal and able to remain in circulation. In addition, the bill focused more on appearance than merit, placing emphasis on weapons that looked more dangerous and military like rather than their actual destructive capabilities. This gun banned with this gun stayed

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So what is a semi-automatic assault weapon and what makes it so deadly? An assault weapon is a gun that has detachable magazines, that can hold as many as 100 rounds of bullets, hence the name semi/or fully automatic.8 This paper analyses some reasons why semi-automatic assault weapons should be banned from public use. Mainly, of their deadly capability to kill many people in a short period of time, also they are not needed for house protection by an average man, and they are not protected by the 2nd amendment in the US Constitution. Assault weapons should be illegal for public use because of their capability to kill a large number of people in a very short period of time. In the past mass shootings, semi-automatic assault guns were the

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With these three different views we will be able to see how we as Americans interpret this law as a whole. The assault weapon ban was a law enacted in 1994 after a large shooting that swayed public opinion into action. It banned the purchasing of certain semi-automatic weapons as well as various accessories like a magazine that carries more than 10 bullets. It was put in place to reduce the amount of homicides with a gun

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A semi-automatic assault rifle can be changed over into a completely automatic firearm with a just a little modifications. A shotgun can turn into a grisly effective weapon by sawing-off the tip of it. Clearly, new procedures for gun control are expected to deliver anticipated results. In the first half of 1991, fifty children less than seventeen years old had been shot to death.

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There is a current divide between people wanting to keep them and others wanting to outright ban them. Recently votes on bans have been happening with many states voting to keep the style rifles. But, how can we keep this rifle but still keep it out of the hands who should not have

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Mass shootings have been very publicized and been taken notice of by the public in recent years, and debates over banning assault weapons have been increasing more and more. Such shootings like the Sandy Hook massacre, and the Orlando club massacre are examples of assault weapons with high-capacity magazines being used to gun down multiple people in a public setting. These types of mass shootings have terrorized the nation, and has many Americans fearing for the lives within regular public settings. Tensions have only continued to rise over the issue, and the media has, for the most part, pointed the blame towards the legality of assault weapons on the nation. In all of this tension, there is a solution that could potentially be a compromise

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Even though gun violence has always plagued humanity, authorities still fail to remove the dangerous equipment at hand. Of course, in the article “The solution to gun violence is clear” published in December 12, 2012, issue of The Washington post, opinionated writer Fareed Zakaria makes his claim on why guns should be banned in the United States. Although this is an interesting subject Zakaria is not very authoritative on his claim. He argues that there are too many guns, too easy to obtain, and the country’s “permissive laws” are making it worst for Americans. Zakaria writes about how much of a better difference the lack of access to guns, have in other countries to make his point.

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Semi-automatic rifles are a threat to the lives of children and adults, regardless. The United States possesses most of the world’s guns and has the highest gun ownership rate internationally; many of those firearms will find themselves into malicious hands and the people of the U.S. need to seize them before more people die. The recent debate over banning semi-automatic rifles has risen to the nation’s attention; rates of mass shootings are rising and recent shooters have been using assault weapons to increase the rate of how many people they can kill in a given time. It is time that semi-automatic rifles are to be swept off store shelves. People tend to get tangled in opinions and quotes on rather semi-automatic weapons should be banned or not, such as if they are protected by the second amendment, halting lawmakers from banning them.

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Dozens of people are killed by someone using these assault style weapons, yet they can still be legally bought at any retailer possessing the proper licensing.

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United States Senator Dianne Feinstein has proposed a bill that would ban assault weapons. This bill would prevent “horrific mass shooting incidents” and ban the purchase of “military-style assault weapons”. This is very effective because that way, the shooters who usually use assault weapons won’t have as large of a magazine, making them easier to stop. This shows that while we cannot entirely ban any weapons, one of the most effective things that can be done is to ban these weapons that shooters can get their hands on so easily. This ban on assault weapons and semi-auto weapons as well is largely supported by the public, and public support usually leads to the passing of laws.

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‘In the late 1980s, gun control groups realized that they had failed in their original goal—getting handguns banned—and began campaigning against semi-automatic firearms they called "assault weapons," most of which are rifles’(“A ban on assault weapons would not reduce crime”). From 1994 to 2004, the Federal Assault Weapons (F.D.A) banned semi automatic weapons from having more than 10 rounds. The easiest way to define gun control is by saying it a government regulation sale of any type of handgun, or assault rifle. It’s just a certain style the government sales firearms, if you have a criminal background or criminal history you are not allowed to purchase a firearm due to gun control. I personally think gun control doesn’t cause any harm to today’s society, considering the fact that i’m constantly around guns and I have no violent urge to put anyone in danger.

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Gun control proponents obviously must not be students of history. There is an old proverb that says, when people do not learn from history, they are doomed to repeat it. They seem to forget a time in America’s past when we tried something very similar to gun control. It was called the “Prohibition”. During the years 1920 to 1933, there was a ban on all things alcoholic; sales, production, consumption, and transport of said substance.

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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.

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