Amanda Vergara, Marissa Ortiz, Taylor Chaturvedi, Jahmari Erkerd
Individuals benefit from owning a gun to protect themselves, for hobbies such as target shooting, and sports such as hunting. By owning a gun if an intruder came into your home you would be able to protect yourself without getting close to the intruder. A social cost would be a child finding a gun in the home and accidently shoot himself or someone around. The responsibility of owning a gun is making sure that others do not have access to the weapon and that the gun stored properly.
There should be more restrictions when it comes to gun ownership across the U.S. Some restrictions that should be put into place could be a longer permit process including a psychological evaluation. This will make sure that the people in possession of the gun are capable of making the right decisions when using a gun. There should be restrictions on the types of bullets that are accessible and also on the types weapons sold.
Making a psychological evaluation mandatory would reduce the amount of permits given. When renewing a permit one should have to undergo another psych evaluation to make sure that the person is still in the right state of mind to own a gun. A person could have gone through a traumatic experience that can now make them a danger to themselves or others. This restriction should be enforced nationally to make sure that everyone has the same restrictions. People that sell guns should only sell guns in person and only to people with a valid permit. Selling guns to only permit holders should reduce the amount of guns owned by non-permit holders. People that do not have permits might not be qualified to possess a weapon. The sale of bullets should be restricted so that people do not have access to law enforcement or military grade weapons and ammunition. In order to purchase ammunition it should be done in person so that the gun permit will be checked. Ultimately we are trying to reduce the amount of illegal weapon ownership and ammunition. It is impossible to prevent the ownership of illegal weapons and ammunition, but this could be a step in the right direction.
The arguments presented were good but I suggest looking into how the needs for guns has changed since the passing of the second amendment as well as ammunition availability and restrictions on that.
ReplyDeleteI also think the arguments are well put and effective. Out necessity of gun has definitely changed since the time period of the second amendment. I would like to know how rigorous would the psych evaluation be, would it be just one? Or maybe two or three to be safe?
ReplyDeleteYou prove a point by it being impossible to prevent the ownership of illegal guns because no matter where you go in the world, there are guns that are not registered and never will be. I agree with having a psychological evaluation because look at all the past incidents at schools and businesses where the "mentally ill" have taken innocent lives. Something should be done to prevent just anybody from owning a gun.
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