The average active shootings in the last seven years has jumped up more than triple of what is was the first year of 6.4 and it goes up 16.4 incidents per year. Just a few years ago, there have been over 300 mass shootings in the U.S in 2015. Recently, in criminal incidents dealing with police shooting many innocent people were falsely accused, which leads to mass debates on what needs to be done to prevent these innocent lives from getting scarred, and ultimately dying. Although there may have recently been multiple tragedies that dealt with guns, the moral of the story is to use these weapons correctly. Instead of banning guns, many people believe having the requirements to own a gun be greater in order to make sure unqualified individuals do not obtain these items. The two articles I will be discussing are “A Criminologist's Case Against Gun Control” written by Jacob Davidson, and “It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them” by Phoebe Maltz Bovy. These two useful sources provide facts over the huge controversy of gun control and if new, stricter laws should be enforced. Guns are used for self-protection, which is why this debate of whether to ban them or not is so …show more content…
“…we have a Constitution, we have a Second Amendment, and we have a Supreme Court decision that guarantees the right of Americans to keep and bear arms in their home for lawful purposes”(3), Davidson claims. Because not all people live in big industrialized cities, these rural families may need guns to survive. There would be a major dispute on who should be allowed to own a gun for survival, such as killing wildlife to eat, or an urban family who was just robbed and went out to buy a gun to scare robbers. Guns are the easiest form of