America – Land With A Gun Problem
Debating gun control laws is always a touchy subject but is it unreasonable to think that there might be a better way to stop all this needless violence. With the total now at 57 Dead and 216 Injured in the last 28 days of July 2016 it was time to express my opinion.
Deep Routed Problems In American Democracy
When it comes to fixing the situation in the united states, there’s no real easy solution as there are simply a ridiculous amount of obstacles in the way to achieve gun regulation. These problems stem from the corruption of congress, through sponsorship by lobbyists who are mainly the NRA. The NRA currently sponsor 40% of the current members of congress, which add up to 193 U.S. Representatives and 20 U.S. Senators, according to opensecrets.org. This is real dangerous precedent to democracy as most of the laws being voted on by congress tend to favor the views of their sponsors before the views of the people. This is a completely different story for a different time but I will write a post about this in the future. The second issue was written in 1778,
but if your reading this then im pretty confident you know all about the 2nd amendment so I will hold back on explaining in any great detail. The problem that exists with the second amendment, is that its now a seriously outdated amendment which existed due to the nature of the present culture they were presently living in. This is the main reason I believe there should be a more sensible debate on amending the constitution as we live in a completely different era and the laws should represent the current social and public landscape. Although that’s my opinion I strongly think it shouldn’t be seen as unreasonable to debate if the legality of own guns should be changed. This could range from the confiscation or a slight amendment within the constitution. A good potential compromise would be to set out to create legislation to restrict the access of guns specifically to dangerous people and would allow the present law to protect the citizens that respect and uphold the law.
“To put this death-toll into perspective, this translates to an average of 9,263 murders per year, or 25 murders per day. When we look at this average death toll in relation to the Sandy Hook Shooting—a nationally shocking tragedy—we see that a Sandy Hook sized tragedy happens every day, yet nobody covers it.” – (theprogressivecynic.com)
The most ironic thing about the present state of american politics is there desire to protect a law that is savagely allowing people to commit horrific crimes. Their terror policy’s completely overlook the simple factor that the american citizen posses a much higher risk to national security than there so called terrorist targets abroad, which is why I strongly believe they should focus on problems domestically.
This is my opinion on the subject and I accept that many people will be on the opposing side of the debate but lets have a nice, educated discussion in the comment section below, whats your thoughts? do you want gun control or are you against it? Why? please leave a comment below.
My opinion doesn't matter 