Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Right to bear arms
As many of us know, today is the day that the DC Sniper John Allen Muhammad faces the death penalty. With his death brings up a very interesting topic of the gun laws in the U.S.. Muhammed and his accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo terrorized the Washington DC area for almost a month with guns that they obtained illegally. With his sniper he effectively terrorized and shut down the DC area for almost the entire month of October. People were afraid to leave their houses and they did it all with only 2 people. This shows the power that an effective plot and a couple of guns can do to the nation. With our extremely relaxed gun laws making it easy to obtain not just one but multiple firemans we endanger ourselves greater than we do protect ourselves. We make it extremely easy for homicides to occur and they do extremly often. As opposed to the UK which has extremly strict gun laws. This shows in the stats where the UK had .1 illegal gun deaths per 100,000 people, whereas the U.S has 2.97 per 100,000 people. I understand the second amendement and the right to bear arms, but at what point are we also endangering ourselves? At what point do we need to make our laws to possess and use firearms stricter? What do you think?
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This is a really interesting idea. I think that the gun laws in America are very relaxed and give people a lot of freedom to carry weapons. Yes, freedom is the idea, but is this too much freedom? By changing this law, rights are being taken away. But is taking away rights that protect and defend the public okay? Or is this an unjust way to handle the situation? This law gives people safety and self-defense, but it also provides criminals with weapons. That being said, who does it really help, victims of crime or criminals?
ReplyDelete*What* do you understand about "the second amendment and the right to bear arms", exactly? Where do YOU draw the line? Can you really generalize from statistics collected in the UK? Need more of you in this post! :)
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