The gun law reform involved a stricter gun policy which allowed the government to take more action after the massacre. By the end of 1997, the state and federal government signed the National Agreement on Gun Laws. The new laws specifically targeted mass shooting, banning rapid-fire rifles and shotguns. This new law agreed that gun ownership was a privilege not a right, semi-automatic weapons must be strictly controlled and all guns must be registered, guns must be stored securely and there must be a 28 day cooling off period when buying guns.…
Many school shootings take place when a troubled, confused, or upset student gets pushed over the edge. Bullying, arguing with, or even just bumping into one of these students could turn lethal if the student was carrying a concealed weapon. Many people argue that anyone with a concealed weapons permit is sane enough to not misuse their weapon. On paper that may may be true, but in the real world people change. They go through experiences that could change them and make them into a troubled person. The 1994 Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act requires gun buyers to complete different background checks. It wasn’t a foolproof system, it had a loophole. Any banned magazine or assault weapon manufactured before the law was put in place…
All in all, it is not a good choice for American society at the present stage to ban gun. From the constitutional view, Gun Ban is contrary to the constitution of human rights and protection spirit; from the political view, it will increase the risk of tyranny; from the economic view, it will lead criminal squares to become one of the guns of the monopolist; from the social reality view, it leads to the lack of citizen means of self-defense; finally, from social culture view, it does not conform to the American culture tradition and social psychology. I think the key to the problem of gun crime is not the gun itself, but the deep problems of the society, such as poverty, social life and so on. I think gun control is just a…
“Court orders reconsideration of Maryland gun law ruling” by Larry O’Dell February 2016, The Washington Post. Richmond, Va. Maryland’s assault weapons ban implicates it citizens Second Amendment rights and must be reviewed under a judicial standard. District Judge Catherine C. Blake gave gun-rights supporters a chance to argue to overturn and challenge the law. The Firearms Safety Act was passed after Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre. The Act was a pro because it was designed to reduce gun violence and make the public safer. Maryland’s law affects the constitutional right to possess firearms for self-defense and home protection for the law-abiding citizens. Because of Maryland’s ban on commonly owned firearms violates an individual right…
There was a steady decrease in crime for eight consecutive years that Clinton served as President of the United States. This was the longest continuous crime decrease in United States history. The violent crime rate decreased 27 percent and the murder rate decreased 25 percent. One reason for this decrease was the 1994 Crime Bill in which President Clinton enacted a new initiative to gain funding for 100,000 new police officers across the nation and 2,600 police officers to work in schools to help improve school safety. The 1994 Crime Bill also included a ban on the manufacturing and importation of 19 deadly assault weapons. Clinton signed the Brady Bill in 1993 which required a waiting period and a background check for anyone who wanted to purchase guns. Thanks to these Bills, more than half a million felons, fugitives, domestic abusers and other prohibited persons have been denied the purchase of guns and there was a 40 percent decline in gun crime by the end of Clinton’s second term. In 1994, the Clinton administration passed the Violence Against Women Act which improved the criminal justice system’s response to domestic violence and went on to establish the National Domestic Violence hotline. President Clinton signed Megan’s Law and the Jacob Wetterling Crimes Against Children and Sexually Violent Offender Registration Act, requiring states to set up sex offender registration…
The Brady Handgun Prevention Acts, enacted November 30, 1993, made it unavoidable for anyone seeking to purchase a firearm without first passing a background check headed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The acts also made it illegal to conceal a handgun without proper licensing as well as put restrictions on who can buy certain firearms. A continuation of the acts also made it so that an individual must be 21 years of age to own a handgun legally and 18 years old to own a rifle or shotgun. The F.B.I. also keeps records of all gun purchases made in the U.S. and retains all information about the individuals who purchase them. The most critical act created in regards to gun control was the Federal Assault Weapons Ban passed on September 13, 1994. This act made it illegal for civilians to own military grade weapons in the U.S. which is critical in order to ensure that these firearms do not find their way into the hands of those seeking to cause havoc. There are a number of specifications that weapons must meet in order to classify it as too lethal for public ownership or not. The weapon must first meet a specific magazine size and bullet caliber. Statistically, the AR-15 is the most popular assault rifle available to citizens of the U.S. numbering in at four million owners. This rifle fires a .223 caliber round and is now sold to the general public with a magazine that does not exceed fifteen rounds. A caliber of this magnitude is acceptable in America because it is said to have a lesser chance to create mass casualties in a shootout. Smaller ammunition cartridges has proven effective for this as well. The action made to lower magazine cartridge sizes was an effective law passed by congress. Less ammunition limits the ability for mass shootings and in a sense it also helps decrease the chances of…
However, in order to really solve the violence problem United States is facing, there needs to be realistic solutions, and banning the possession of guns is not a realistic solution. Legislations who ban types of guns are ineffective in the long term. For example, the Violent Crime Control Act and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 which banned assault weapons, did not seem to have any effect on crime at all. Between the years 1994-2004, gun violence using the banned assault weapons did not change dramatically, however, gun crimes using non-banned semi-automatic weapons were rising between the years 1994-2004. The bill was finally expired on September 13, 2004 when it was ruled unconstitutional.…
Assault weapons should need to be banned. Once again our country is becoming at risk again, due to the assault weapons putting people's lives at risk. A assault weapon is a weapon such as a gun; a gun is a very harmful weapon. A assault weapon can be very dangerous to any living thing on Earth. Once someone pulls the trigger they can immediately harm another human. This could be an accident or on purpose but either way assault weapons are treacherous. People want a gun they don’t need a gun.. Therefor, Assault weapons should be banned.…
The 1994 Assault Weapons Ban was not effectual, this law banned many semi-automatic weapons but not all of them, mostly AR-15s and AK-47s models were found to be banned. This law also banned weapons that was able to carry…
For my recent controversial legal topic I have selected the failed proposed ban on “assault weapons” that appeared before congress this past spring. This proposed legislation was one that worried me greatly because being a responsible gun owner myself I was worried that by putting another ban upon the ownership of “assault weapons” or semi-automatic rifles such as AR-15’s or Ak-47’s would restrict my current rights as well as not even addressing the real issue of violence in our society which seems to be a mental or psychological issue. It is my intention to address why this proposed ban on “assault weapons” was illogical.…
What would be going through your mind if you were in a restaurant and a mad man came in and began slaughtering people right and left including you family (Swasey 174)? Would you be thinking if they would ban guns this would have never happened? Probably not! What you were probably thinking is if I had a gun on me I could protect not only my family but also the others being slaughtered. This same scenario was on the mind of Suzanna Gratia as written in Elizabeth Swasey essay ”NRA Woman’s Voice”(174). People are starting to see a gun as an object of death and destruction, and not what they are intended to be.…
This is the final draft paper written on December 13th 2015 for Mrs. Lerner's Critical Issues in Criminal Justice class during the Fall 2015 quarter at Rasmussen college.…
Writer Christine Watkins, at htt://ww.socialstudies.org claimed that “there are already some 20,000 gun laws in the United States, and that, as more laws pass, more gun violence occurs. “With the significant increase I gun control laws passed by President Obama in the past years, along come a rise in the percentage of gun violence where more gun control laws have been put into action. Stronger gun control laws will make it more difficult for the citizen to protect themselves and their families if a criminal appears. The police aren’t around all the time and might not be able to make it on time or help the situation at…
“In December 11, of 2012, 2 people were killed and one was wounded at clackamas town center mall in happy valley, Oregon; Jacob Roberts used a bushmaster .223 caliber semi automatic, and he then killed himself at the scene (Richman). This is one incidence of many more where a assault gun was used. This shows how the assault weapon is a very dangerous gun, and it should be illegal to have one. In 1989, a group of California lawmakers - were horrified by the shooting at a stockton schoolyard - so they adopted (made) the first assault weapons ban in the country….giving new life to the group of gun control advocates to re-enact the federal assault weapon ban that expired in 2004 (Richman). This talks about how back then they did the first ever assault weapon ban in the country, It shows how dangerous the assault weapon is and if California banned the assault weapon then, the whole US should too. Assault weapons have killed many people in the US showing how dangerous they are and there should be a stop to…
Roth, Jeffery, Christopher S. Koper,William Adams. Impact evaluation of the Public Safty and Recreational Firearm Use Protection Act of 1994. 13 March 1997. <www.urban.org/publications/406797.html>.…