Essays on Gun Control

In the recent past, the second amendment sparked an intense debate in the United States of America. The debate was about whether individuals or the local, state or federal legislative bodies have the rights to own firearms. This forced the Supreme Court to make a ruling and determine the right...

Guns Should Not be Permitted in US Schools The incidents which occurred in Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech and Florida high school should serve as examples of the imminent danger of allowing school communities to carry firearms. There have been recent suggestions that the teachers need to carry guns as a means...

The author uses a title that helps to deliver the content of the essay because it presents a summary of the key idea. For instance, by indicating cars and guns are different the title provides a glimpse of what the essay discusses (MacLeod 81). In addition, it provides a clue...

Gun Control: A Controversial and Complex Issue Following the recent rise in the gun-related random acts of violence and fatalities caused by firearms in the United States, the gun control issue has become one of the most controversial subjects of social, political and cultural interest. Gun control refers to the laws...

Introduction Imagine taking a night out to dinner, a theater, a concert, or any public location and having to worry about feeling helpless or victimized by criminals. Well, this has been the case in many cities across the United States. It seems as though every week there’s a breaking story of...

The Discussion on Gun Control in the United States The discussion on gun control in the United States has on many occasions aimed to ensure that members of the public with questionable backgrounds are not allowed to own or even access firearms. Over the last five years, different states such as...

The District of Columbia v Heller ruling on 26 June 2008 marked a landmark decision on the gun debate (Burkett, 2008). The Supreme Court said that a District of Columbia law that banned the ownership of usable firearms in a household was illegal because it violated the Second Amendment (Burkett,...

Various Means to Tackle School Shootings Various means have been proposed as ways to tackle school shootings. However, none of them guarantees complete solution to the problem of school shootings. In fact the statistics are on the rise with a minimum of one shooting per week according to a report by...

There are roughly eighty-eight firearms for each one-hundred persons in America that is almost 270,000,000 artilleries and the most noteworthy summation and individual scale worldwide. That is to say, approximately 22% of the United States nationals do own a single or multiple guns of which 35% are males, and...

Gun control has returned to the forefront of the debate nationally since the occurrence of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Florida. The Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School attack which left seventeen dead. This was unlike previous massacres, many big companies and firms have come out firmly...

Despite being a world power and one of the developed nation of the world, United States of America is going through a number of social issues. Some of these have slowly accumulated, while others are more recent. Everything that the government and people of a country do have an impact...

Analysis of the Need for Gun Control in the United States Over the years, a couple of issues have constantly aroused heated controversies. They have also led to the development of several arguments in society. Having considered the several options available for discussion in this study, attention would be given to...