Gun Control

Gun Control

Gun Control can be called the 'acid test' of liberalism. All true
liberals must favor stricter gun controls. After all, doesn't the United States
have the most heavily armed population on the earth? Are we not the world's most
violent people? Surely these facts must be at least casually connected.
Therefore the apparently desperate need to "do something" about the vast
quantity of firearms and firearms abuse is obvious.
Guns are employed in an enormous number of crimes in this country. In
other countries with stricter gun laws, gun crimes are rare. Many of the
firearms involved in crime are cheap handguns, so-called Saturday Night Specials
for which there is no legitimate use or need.
The public is polarized on the issue of gun control, Anti-gun control
activists believe that it is each and every American's individual right to bear
arms. After all, the Second Amendment to 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.
Advocates of gun control say that even with 20,000 gun control laws
already in existence, the serious problems due to firearm misuse continue.
Obviously, the controls that have been designed have not been sufficiently
effective. Therefore the pro-gun controllers argue, we need more uniform
legislation, more extensive gun controls, and effective enforcement.
Various pro-gun control organizations disagree on methods o...

Gun Control

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