Gun Control

« Daluz Soares 1 Matthieu Daluz Soares Professor Stefanie Shipe English 112 October 6 2013 Control Our People Before Our Weapons The Bill of Rights, passed in 1791, consists of the most important rights to citizens of the United States of America.

The second amendment guarantees that every citizen has the right to carry a weapon.

That amendment is the key element that helps understanding the tolerance American people have towards guns.

The possession rate of firearms in the United States is much higher than in most other countries of the world.

The right to carry a gun is subject of much debate and constitutes an important pillar of the American politics.

Members of the Republican Party are usually defenders of the second amendment whereas their political opponents, the democrats, are more critical about the trade and the possession of weapons without restriction.

In the United States, restrictions laws over weapons wouldn’t lead to any solution in a country where arms are embedded in the culture.

In order to control guns and the violence they cause, our nation needs to, primarily, come up with solutions to control its population, the main one being altering the American culture. Our society is a very violent society.

The rates of murders and robberies are very high; therefore, we need to control the people behind this violence.

In the United States, a gun is a cultural object.

“Gun shows”, arm fairs, where is presented the arsenal available on the market are very common.

People go there with their families, they try guns, then they train with their. »