Some Gun Control Laws

New York:

- There is restricted ownership on guns in NYS

- You can't have a gun on you just to carry around. Also, firearms must be unloaded and stored in the trunk if they are being transported.

Texas:

-You can conceal any type of gun anywhere in a vehicle AND it can be loaded.

-There is no ownership laws so anyone can possess a gun.  

  
Pennsylvania:

-A neighboring state to New York has unrestricted access to guns.

-Open carrying is mostly unrestricted.

 
California:  
- There is unrestricted ownership of guns in California.

-Guns must be unloaded an cased when carried in a vehicle.

-Concealed carry is restrictive to residents of California.

Iowa: 

-Again, there is unrestricted ownership of guns in Iowa.
-Licenses are issued to allow concealed carry of weapons.






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The Modern Issue

This issue is involved in many aspects of civilization including the social, political, and economical aspects. The problem created in politics is extremely important. It has been a rising issue for years and it is worse than ever. This will effect the economy because if guns deemed illegal, they will be taken out of the market and gun sales will plummet.

Click here for an Informative News Article On The Politics of Gun Control

                                                                    This article shows some staggering statistics and reveals the truth of gun control in politics.

Social Impact:

Some of the main social problems that guns create are an increased crime and death rate. When people  have easy access to firearms, want to harm others, and don't know how to use guns, it is very easy to hurt somebody.

Obviously,  not allowing people to have guns would lower these criminal and death rates... But what about the people that use guns the way that they are supposed to be used? This is where an issue is created.

The main issue is that by limiting the rights of certain people, it's violating all of the rights of




Some Staggering Statistics:

-A record 16.4 million background checks for gun purchases were requested in 2011, including 1.8 million in December, a record for a single month.

-There were 535 accidental firearms deaths in 2006 within a population of almost 300 million people.

-Newsweek has reported that law-abiding American citizens using guns in self-defense during 2003 shot and killed two and one-half times as many criminals as police did, and with fewer than one-fifth as many incidents as police where an innocent person mistakenly identified as a criminal (2% versus 11%).

-The National Institute of Justice estimated that, in the year 2006, 68 percent of murders, 42 percent of robberies, and 22 percent of aggravated assaults that were committed in the United States were committed with firearms.

-About 50 percent of all homes in the United States contain at least one firearm. More than half of these are loaded or have ammunition stored with the gun.




Click here for an Interesting Video on Gun Control!


http://www.gunsandcrime.org/
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/The-politics-of-gun-control-3741623.php
http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/gun-control-advocates-running-out-ammo

Gun Control Has Been an Idea for Years

     To start off, the idea of individuals possessing guns goes back to ancient times in Rome. Even in the B.C. era, ancient thinkers such as Cicero pondered about an issue that wouldn't even be resolved thousands of years afterword and even until present times.

     Gun Control even goes back to the Age of Enlightenment with John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. According to their standards, every individual is given basic rights.

     This conflict has even been used by the founding fathers of our country. The 2nd Amendment of the U.S Constitution gives any citizen the right to bear arms (and other various animal parts). Of all of the Amendments, being #2 on the list shows that this right was important to our founding fathers and the future U.S civilization.

"Gun Control." Current Issues: Macmillan Social Science Library. Detroit: Gale, 2010. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context. Web. 16 Nov. 2012.