Jackalyn Siebenaler
Mrs. Cheresnick
GSW 1110
21 October 2015
Ending Gun Violence Once and For All A person’s teenage years are meant for spending time with friends, going to school, and generally enjoying life. During the teenage years, children are becoming more independent and they are growing as individuals. This is the time that people begin making their own choices that will begin to affect them. By their teen years, most are focused on school and planning their future, whether it be work or college. Though, there are teens everyday that are worried if they will even have a future at all. This is because some teenagers are unfortunately aware of the fact that there are teens that are killed everyday due to gun violence. The Brady Campaign …show more content…
Brad Plumer of the Washington Post wrote an article that he titled “Everything You Need to Know About the Assault Weapons Ban, In One Post.” In it, Plumer discussed the 1994 assault weapons ban, and how it would apply to today. He said that there would need to be some revisions made to the old law, mainly taking out the loopholes that allowed people to still get assault rifles if they wanted one (Pulmer). He also wrote about how there was a ban of assault rifles in Australia, and it how it has worked out great for them (Plumer). Plumer said that the ban majorly decreased firearm deaths in Australia. If the ban were to be inacted, teens would have a harder time finding people with assault rifles to buy from. But, just because the government outlaws it, does not mean that people will follow the law. People can still buy and use them, it will just be illegal. A complete ban of the rifles is not a definite way of stopping the people from illegally acquiring and using them. Due to the fact that completely banning the guns would not solve the teen gun violence issue for the Committee of Energy and Commerce, other options should be …show more content…
James Orlando, Associate Analyst for the Connecticut General Assembly, wrote and article for The Conneticut General Assembly titled “Penalties for Illegal Handgun Possession,” that stated all of the laws for every state about the punishment of illegal handgun possession by minors. The article reported that, currently, the government does not regulate the age or the punishments for possessing a firearm under the designated age (Orlando). Orlando reported that the only aspect of firearms that federal government controls is the minimum age limit for legally owning a firearm, which is eighteen. The committee should discuss taking over the responsibility of controlling the age requirements and punishments for underage possession of firearms. If they were to do that, it would be uniform throughout the whole country, because it would be a federal law. Also, if there were a federal law regulating the laws, there would be no confusion on the penalties because at one point each state had their own laws. The states range in their punishments from no penalty all the way to eight years in jail (Orlando). As discussed earlier, gun violence is very prominent in teenagers, and the Committee of Energy and Commerce
Mrs. Cheresnick
GSW 1110
21 October 2015
Ending Gun Violence Once and For All A person’s teenage years are meant for spending time with friends, going to school, and generally enjoying life. During the teenage years, children are becoming more independent and they are growing as individuals. This is the time that people begin making their own choices that will begin to affect them. By their teen years, most are focused on school and planning their future, whether it be work or college. Though, there are teens everyday that are worried if they will even have a future at all. This is because some teenagers are unfortunately aware of the fact that there are teens that are killed everyday due to gun violence. The Brady Campaign …show more content…
Brad Plumer of the Washington Post wrote an article that he titled “Everything You Need to Know About the Assault Weapons Ban, In One Post.” In it, Plumer discussed the 1994 assault weapons ban, and how it would apply to today. He said that there would need to be some revisions made to the old law, mainly taking out the loopholes that allowed people to still get assault rifles if they wanted one (Pulmer). He also wrote about how there was a ban of assault rifles in Australia, and it how it has worked out great for them (Plumer). Plumer said that the ban majorly decreased firearm deaths in Australia. If the ban were to be inacted, teens would have a harder time finding people with assault rifles to buy from. But, just because the government outlaws it, does not mean that people will follow the law. People can still buy and use them, it will just be illegal. A complete ban of the rifles is not a definite way of stopping the people from illegally acquiring and using them. Due to the fact that completely banning the guns would not solve the teen gun violence issue for the Committee of Energy and Commerce, other options should be …show more content…
James Orlando, Associate Analyst for the Connecticut General Assembly, wrote and article for The Conneticut General Assembly titled “Penalties for Illegal Handgun Possession,” that stated all of the laws for every state about the punishment of illegal handgun possession by minors. The article reported that, currently, the government does not regulate the age or the punishments for possessing a firearm under the designated age (Orlando). Orlando reported that the only aspect of firearms that federal government controls is the minimum age limit for legally owning a firearm, which is eighteen. The committee should discuss taking over the responsibility of controlling the age requirements and punishments for underage possession of firearms. If they were to do that, it would be uniform throughout the whole country, because it would be a federal law. Also, if there were a federal law regulating the laws, there would be no confusion on the penalties because at one point each state had their own laws. The states range in their punishments from no penalty all the way to eight years in jail (Orlando). As discussed earlier, gun violence is very prominent in teenagers, and the Committee of Energy and Commerce