Gun Control Argumentative Analysis

In 2014 the CDC reported that 11,008 of the 15,872 homicides committed in the U.S that year involved a firearm(School Violence).On April 16, 2007 Thirty-two people died when a mentally disturbed gunman at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia shot students around campus killing 32 people.This attack was the most deadly in a long line of school shootings in the United States.In june of 2008 the debate over criminal gun laws got more complicated. in the end the United States Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that U.S. citizens have an individual right to possess guns under the Constitution's Second Amendment.there are two sides to this topic on stricter gun laws.
”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”(Correl university). The quote above is the second amendment which was created in 1787. The amendment basically says that all U.S citizens have the right to own firearms. This amendment was okay for the 1700’s, but the only guns they had back then were semi-automatic muskets and rifles that don’t nearly compare to the full-auto ar-15’s and ak’s of today’s standards. …show more content…
in 2011, 67 percent of homicide victims were killed using a firearm: 66 percent of single-victim homicides and 79 percent of multiple-victim homicides. In the 19th century gun violence played a role in civil disorder such as the Haymarket riot” (wikipedia.org).a counter argument for the opposing side may that be In 1993 the amount of firearm deaths was about 18,000 and in 2011 its around 12,000. As the data above shows this problem is slowly getting better and fixing itself.this may be true but since then more rules and regulations have been

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