Gun Control
“ Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns” - Michael D Barnes. This impacts the individual rights by not having the right to bear arms. It impacts the common good by protecting the people from terrorist or any criminal getting their hands on a gun. Background checks for guns should be required because we are more safe when their are background checks, it helps keep guns out of the criminal and mental hands, and stops more gun deaths or stops violence from guns.
The first reason we should have background checks is that we are more safer when their are background checks. In the article, “ House Passes most Sweeping Gun Control Legislation in Decades!” it says Nancy Pelosi quoted saying, “Everyday, 47 children and teenagers are killed by guns”. This was when there weren't background checks. It could've been less than that everyday if there were background checks. Maybe half the deaths of that. After that in the article, “Gun Control” it shows that the Justice Department said with background checks it would have prevented more than 5 hundred thousand deaths between 1994 and 1999. This shows that people would have a lower risk of dying and it's more safe with background checks. Background checks are more safe for your benefit.
Next, background checks help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and mental people. From the article “Should more Gun Control Laws be enacted?” Between 1999 and 2013 there were 464,033 gun deaths and having background checks would limit the number of deaths. Criminals probably were the cause of most of the deaths. The same article as the last one “ Gun Control” it explained that in 2010 there were 36,341 emergency room visits from people and 25,024 gun injured people. This could've have reduced with background checks that are needed. Guns can’t be in the hands of criminals because criminals will do bad things with it. Background checks would make it harder for criminals to get a gun.
Although Finally, background checks also shouldn't be required because from the article “Amendment 2” by Nelson Lund and Adam Winkler, its saying that it violates amendment 2 “ the right to bear arms”. Amendment 2 is “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. However, the amendment was adopted in 1791 when there were wars that guns were there to protect them and now people are using it to attack people. Even though this violates the amendment it still doesn't stop deaths from happening and with background checks it would limit the amount of deaths that there is.
In the end, this would impact civil and human rights. How it would impact civil rights is with background checks some people would not get a gun freely. But how it impacts human rights is that some people believe that there shouldn't be background checks. But background checks help people cause it give you more safety by limiting the amount of guns that criminals have. For a lot of years the supreme court stopped the right of individuals the right to bear arms. Maybe after you get a background check you should take a safety gun course, similar to my quote by Michael Barnes. The court had a case of an unregistered sawed off shotgun. The court said that amendmendment two stops the federal government from making it illegal for private people to keep loaded guns at their home.If there were no background checks it would be chaos because everyone would be shooting each other. Then there would be a lot of gun deaths that could happen. Criminals or some people that have mental issues could get a gun without background checks and that wouldn't be good. Background checks definitely need to be required along with the Safety Gun Certificate. It helps by limiting gun deaths and keeps the gun out of the criminals hands. We are more safer with background checks.
