Gun Violence In America

Twenty seven, murdered in Newtown. Thirty two, fatally shot in Blacksburg. Fifty, brutally killed in Orlando. These are some recent US gun shootings that have happened for decades (“Deadliest U.S. Mass Shootings”). Gun violence has been a problem in America since a man could legally or illegally obtain a gun. Our Founding Fathers created the Constitution, the supreme set of principles our country follows. The Second Amendment from the Constitution states that “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.” Should America still be following these rules or are they outdated? In 1968, the Gun Control Act was passed in response to the high number …show more content…
Should there be Second Amendment Rights or shall the people be restricted due to recent high violence in America? Some still try to decipher what the document is trying to say. According to the article “Gun Control” from Violence in America, edited by Ronald Gottesman, he questions, “Does the Second Amendment confer an individual or a collective right? That is, does it enshrine an absolute individual right to own firearms, or does it guarantee citizens the right to arm themselves only when banded together for communal defense?” Essentially, Gottesman is questioning if “the right to bear arms” is to be allowed to a collective persons or individual person. When the Constitution was signed in 1787, during Colonial America, guns were not as common and not as effective. Looking at modern day fire arms, they are a greater amount more affective, deadly, and easier for one to get a hold of. To make things simpler, many aspects to life have changed. With everyday life being updated, the question is if the law we follow should be updated along with it. Gottesman also believes that “supporters of gun control argue for a collective interpretation in which the term militia refers to the ‘organized’ militia (in the contemporary context, the National Guard), while opponents insist that the framers meant the militia of English common law: all adult male citizens, or the ‘unorganized’ militia.” If the …show more content…
Due to there being so much evidence and research supporting both sides, there truly is no one correct answer. Having said that, allowing common people to own guns while still enforcing strict background checks to prevent them from getting into criminal hands is the optimal solution. This way, America is still following the Second Amendment while reasonably inducing restrictions will allow the safest environment. There is no one solution to fix gun violence in America and even the world. Violence will always exist with or without guns, as it is human nature to be aggressive and violent but maybe several combinations of legal policies could reduce the brutality that oversees the dark parts of the world. Jonathan Stray from The Atlantic believes he has a few possibilities backed by past gun reduction studies that might

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