Gun Control in the United States
Gun Control
The most important role of the United States government is to protect the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. Some might argue that the world 's greater issue is government(1). All countries have social issues that are mostly blamed on the government. Governments should first focus on the social issues that the citizens are mostly concerned off. The United States has many social issues some of those issues are education, tax the wealthy, creation of new jobs, same sex marriage, gun control and many others.
"The world moves, and ides that were good once are not always good"(2) this quote fits perfectly with old documents like the constitution. The second amendment in the constitution stablished the right of the people to keep and bear arms to protect them selfs from government. Except that now a days the United States has a big army so not one citizen would be able to defend them selfs from government. Considering that the second amendment was not meant to be for individual citizens the NRA interpret the word "people" to mean individuals. The Gun Control Act from 1968 made the second amendment not necessarily a personal right, it also gave the states and local governments the right to stablished any kind of gun law(3). In June of 2003 there was 20,000 gun laws across the United States (4). As of today January 2013, the total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is around 270,000,000(4). Given that the population of the United States is 315,161,959(5), if each person were giving a gun, about 86% of the population would be armed. However it 's common to own more than one gun specially for people who have gun collections. About 4.5 million firearms and approximately 2 million handguns are sold each year in the Unites States(6). More than 31,000 people in the United States die from gunshots per year and more than 10,000 people die from gun homicides(7). About 30 people are shot everyday and half of them are in the ages between
The most important role of the United States government is to protect the rights and freedoms of individual citizens. Some might argue that the world 's greater issue is government(1). All countries have social issues that are mostly blamed on the government. Governments should first focus on the social issues that the citizens are mostly concerned off. The United States has many social issues some of those issues are education, tax the wealthy, creation of new jobs, same sex marriage, gun control and many others.
"The world moves, and ides that were good once are not always good"(2) this quote fits perfectly with old documents like the constitution. The second amendment in the constitution stablished the right of the people to keep and bear arms to protect them selfs from government. Except that now a days the United States has a big army so not one citizen would be able to defend them selfs from government. Considering that the second amendment was not meant to be for individual citizens the NRA interpret the word "people" to mean individuals. The Gun Control Act from 1968 made the second amendment not necessarily a personal right, it also gave the states and local governments the right to stablished any kind of gun law(3). In June of 2003 there was 20,000 gun laws across the United States (4). As of today January 2013, the total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is around 270,000,000(4). Given that the population of the United States is 315,161,959(5), if each person were giving a gun, about 86% of the population would be armed. However it 's common to own more than one gun specially for people who have gun collections. About 4.5 million firearms and approximately 2 million handguns are sold each year in the Unites States(6). More than 31,000 people in the United States die from gunshots per year and more than 10,000 people die from gun homicides(7). About 30 people are shot everyday and half of them are in the ages between
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