Close to noon on November twenty-seventh after Thanksgiving, a gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle in a waiting area in Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic as he chanted “kill the baby killers,” (Helling, 42). The fifty-seven-year-old Robert Lewis Dear murdered three people and left nine seriously wounded. Gun control rights are one of the most argumentative moral issues in today’s society. The argument over the right to bear arms according to the second amendment has been a challenging conflict for many years in America. It has been a contentious concern along with other issues such as abortion and capital punishment (Saenz, 476). There have been numerous senseless gun-related incidents such as the one in Colorado. Incidents
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Guns will reduce crime rates because when a gun is given to the right hand, it is expected to be used the right way. However, if the gun is given to the wrong hands, the government is to blame for not revising the necessary gun laws (CNN.org). “This philosophy of an armed citizenry, in which every citizen is a soldier and every soldier a citizen, was subsequently codified in the U.S.” (Patrick J. Charles). This has further been consented by today’s president-elect Donald J. Trump as he eagerly promised to veto and unsign each gun strictive law signed by the President of the United States “so fast” (CNN.org). However, It is crucial for all Americans that the second amendment of the constitution is set to be revised as it may reflect the older generation more than it does now. Back in the time when the law was established and written, there weren’t any automatic weapons and guns like today. It would have been exceedingly unapproved to permit individuals to utilize weapons if lawmakers could have seen the development of firearms today. If these guns were in control, individuals wouldn 't have such simple access to unlawful weapons whichever
Guns will reduce crime rates because when a gun is given to the right hand, it is expected to be used the right way. However, if the gun is given to the wrong hands, the government is to blame for not revising the necessary gun laws (CNN.org). “This philosophy of an armed citizenry, in which every citizen is a soldier and every soldier a citizen, was subsequently codified in the U.S.” (Patrick J. Charles). This has further been consented by today’s president-elect Donald J. Trump as he eagerly promised to veto and unsign each gun strictive law signed by the President of the United States “so fast” (CNN.org). However, It is crucial for all Americans that the second amendment of the constitution is set to be revised as it may reflect the older generation more than it does now. Back in the time when the law was established and written, there weren’t any automatic weapons and guns like today. It would have been exceedingly unapproved to permit individuals to utilize weapons if lawmakers could have seen the development of firearms today. If these guns were in control, individuals wouldn 't have such simple access to unlawful weapons whichever