Gun Control

Currently the Obama administration is trying to implement more gun control polices to Congress in order to make owning a firearm a long and tedious task. The Second Amendment is stated in the United States Constitution in the section of the United States Bill of Rights that was adopted on December 15, 1791 it is the right for all American Citizen to bear arms. The Bill of Rights is every Americans legal rights as a citizen of this country. Throughout the course of Americans existence many political parties and leaders have tried to implement new addition to many of the amendments in the Constitution in order to make their personal perversion of the rights our country was founded on. The fear is that the Country was founded to be a Republic, "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." - Abraham Lincoln, will be compromised and the government will start to control our way of life spinning our country into a socialist style government. With each new bill congress and the president passes is one more step in the wrong direction. With every new policy are new laws and with laws comes authorial action. Many of these actions are implemented by revoking of citizen’s original rights therefore leaving a American citizen bare of all legal right and in complete control of the government. Firearms are indeed dangerous and someone who owns one has an obligation to be properly educated and trained with the weapon. So with the current laws emplaced a possible buyer must be 18 years of age to purchase a rifle or shotgun, 21 years of age for a pistol, go through a background check to see if the buyer has been convicted of any felons, domestic assault or abuse, dishonorably discharged veterans from the military, illegal immigrants, anyone under indictment for felony charges, mentally ill or insane, and people with outstanding misdemeanor or felony warrants. I feel this process is important ensuring only those who are illegible are able to purchase a firearm. The Obama administration along with many other liberal politicians are wanting every firearm owner to register every weapon with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms so that the government knows of every weapon an legal law abiding citizen has. Failure to do so under these new policies will result in property searches without a warrant, confiscation of firearms, fines and possible jail time. Keep in mind this is apart of a process of a law abiding citizen takes. Nowhere in these new laws or polices is it making it any more difficult for someone who doesn’t live by the laws to obtain a firearm. So now in this society where a law abiding citizen is punished for following the laws its country has put into action can not own a firearm to protect himself from a transient citizen or non citizen who has obtained an illegal firearm and is now threatening their life. With each new stipulation on our original rights will result in more power to the government and less to the people. By disarming the citizen you are arming the criminals making it the governments responsibility to hire and train more police officers to protect the citizens. Lets take Chesapeake, VA 2009 statistics for an example, Population 222,455, Full time Police Officers 512. This putting 434 citizens to one police officer and patrolling a area roughly 340.7 square miles with a population density of 653 people per square mile. This is a large area and a large number of people for only 1 police office to be in control of. If we just keep the standards we have on gun control and actually enforced purchasing and carrying firearms will in turn instill fear to many criminals. With the fear of not knowing who may or may not be carrying. With this idea comes great responsibility to ensure proper education and training as stated earlier. But empowering the people with their original right to bare arms will make our country a safer place. Sources 1) Sands, Trent. “The Instant Background Check for Gun Purchasers”. Loompanics Unusual & Unique Books. Web. 2) Chesapeake, Virginia. Web.