“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Those who make this argument are misinformed as to the original intent of the 2 nd Amendment and have either been tricked by the modern gun lobby’s marketing or are actively perverting its meaning.įirst, here is the text of the 2 nd Amendment: “The 2 nd Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms, thus gun control measures are unconstitutional.” In the following section, I will name and quickly debunk 15 of the most common gun enthusiast arguments.ġ.

These people use a multitude of arguments in order to attempt to fight any gun regulations. This conversation is long overdue, and will hopefully result in some sane gun regulations being enacted.ĭespite the terrible death toll due to gun violence in our country and the recent mass-shootings, there is still a wide contingent within our country who oppose any form of gun control. In the aftermath of the Sandy Hook shooting, many politicians have begun to pivot towards the idea that gun control needs to be strengthened-this effort is being led by Democrats, but even many Republicans have begun to buck their longstanding deference to the NRA and gun lobbyists.

With so many weapons and so few controls on who can own the weapons, there is simply no realistic way to keep these guns from falling into the hands of violent criminals and disturbed people. The easy access to weapons and the ineffective methods of tracking weapons to make sure that they don’t fall into the wrong hands facilitate violent and unstable people in the United States getting weapons with which to kill people.Ĭurrently, there are 88 guns for every 100 people living in the United States (not even counting the illegal weapons which our government couldn’t account for). No other developed country on earth has as lax gun laws or more weapons than the United States. When we look at this average death toll in relation to the Sandy Hook Shooting-a nationally shocking tragedy-we see that a Sandy Hook sized tragedy happens every day, yet nobody covers it. To put this death-toll into perspective, this translates to an average of 9,263 murders per year, or 25 murders per day. The Sandy Hook school shooting is tragic-it caused the death of 20 children-but the true tragedy is that such a shooting is only the tip of the iceberg of our country’s gun problem.Īccording to FBI statistics, 46,313 Americans were murdered with firearms during the time period of 2007 to 2011. The recent rash of mass shootings in the United States is simply part of a long-term trend of gun violence unique to our country.

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