The 2nd Amendment

Is Possession legal?

Yes! The forefathers made that veryClear!

Why would you deny your own freedom?

New Law Reforms & Actions on

Gun Control

Has detachable magazines

or

Less than 2% of inmates reported carrying a fully automatic or military-style semiautomatic firearm

Crime RatesSo why would you try to

restrict guns when the crime rate

involving guns is falling?

Obama has also brought up bringing

the 10 round magazines limit back

Taking away guns: Has it Worked in the Past?

In the instance in Washington D.C.

where the city police tried to remove the weapons from the

public. There were

thousands of people living in the city and in 1 year the police only confiscated a total of 283 guns.

 Has it Worked in the Past?

In Harrisburg the city officials, with the

help of donations, started a gun reclamation

program.

In the program they offered rewards to

any person that would give tips about

illegal weapons.

The program turned out to get many

illegal guns off the streets.

Success:

 Has it Worked in the Past?

In the instance of World War II, Hitler applied laws to take guns away from the Jewish population.

The Jewish people in turn could not defend

themselves.

The rest is history…

Failure

That’s why we need our guns. What if politicians start to take a bit too much control?

We need our guns if that ever happens!

Mandatory Background Checks for All Gun Sales.

Who stops criminals from getting guns?

How can you be sure

they’re not a criminal when

not all the data bases are

checked?

Background ChecksIn 1993 the Brady handgun Violence prevention act was passed which instituted FBI run background check, looking for a number of different conditions.

Has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic

violence

Having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced U.S. citizenship

Has been discharged from the Armed Forces under

dishonorable conditions;

Is an alien illegally or unlawfully in the United States;

Has been adjudicated as a mental defective or committed to a mental

institution; Is an unlawful user of or addicted to

any controlled substance;

Is a fugitive from justice;

Has been convicted in any court of a crime punishable by imprisonment for

a term exceeding one year;

According to the FBI.gov“More than 100 million such checks have been made in the last decade, leading to more than

700,000 denials”Is subject to a court order that

restrains the person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate

partner or child of such intimate partnerBut remember this only applies to 60% of gun sales.

Anyone that is denied there could easily go to a private sale.

Even though 700,000 people were denied guns , there are loopholes

that compromise the public’s safety.

Others only add the recent convictions, but convictions past 30-40 years are still on paper records.

Many states still have paper systems just like Maine

Maine only keeps paper records, Maine has yet to add their mentally ill and violent offenders to the Federal Background Check.

States are required to submit the names of those who have been convicted, but most are not added to the data base.

Background checks are very important to keep the public

safe. They seem to be effective but…

Some of those reasons are… So how can the

government take away our

guns when they have hardly

tried to check everyone that is

dangerous?

The System of Background Checks is Flawed.

Private sales account for 40% of all guns sold.

A private seller is anyone who is not a federally licensed seller.

Not to mention anyone that was denied by a federal certified seller, can always buy from the private sellers.

Gun Possession Will Stop/Lower Crime Rates

If law abiding citizens could have guns it would reduce crime, because criminals would not

know if the people they were attacking could defend themselves or not .

Joseph Zamudio ran from a nearby Walgreen’s, he had a 9mm, thankfully he did not have to use it but helped restrain the suspect, Jared lee Loughner.

In 2011 a shooter in Tucson opened fire in a supermarket and proceeded to kill 6 and injure 14 people.

This proves that an armed citizen is a good constant

police-like force that can keep peace, and keep everyone else

safer.

In a Texas cafeteria on October 16, 1991 Suzanna Hupp and her parents were causally dinning. A man ran his pick-up into the cafeteria and began to

open fire on the patrons dinning. Her parents were both murdered in the chaos.

Suzanna regularly carried a gun in her purse for self defense, but had stopped months before due to legislation limiting the carry of guns.

She felt that if she had her gun she could have stopped the gunman and saved her parents.

The gunman shot 50 people and killed 23.

Suzanna Hupp’s Story

Interview with Suzanna

Hupp

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/dr-suzanna-gratia-hupp-talks-about-lubys-restaurant-massacre-and-armed-citizenry

Protection by the Constitution: Supreme Court Cases

Heller vs. District of Columbia.• Background: District of Columbia made

handguns illegal if not registered • Guns would have to be safely kept in the home

and either be dismantled or with a trigger lock on.

• Heller was a police officer that wanted to keep a hand gun in his home,

• After being denied registration he filed a lawsuit.

Protection by the Constitution: Supreme Court Cases

The Supreme Court found that the handgun ban was

unconstitutional.

Ruling on Heller vs. District of Columbia:

Having a dismantled handgun would serve no use to the owner and for that reason was in violation of the

Second Amendment.

Background:

McDonald Vs. Chicago

McDonald in front of The Supreme Court

McDonald is a retired maintenance engineer who lived in Morgan Park since 1971, when he bought his home.

The neighborhood declined and was overrun with crime.

After his property was broken into the 5th time he wanted to buy a handgun.

McDonald wanted to keep the handgun in his house for self defense, which was in violation of the ban instituted in 1982.

WHERE THE 2ND AMENDMENT ENDS

A topic that has arisen from the 2nd amendment is the line that you can’t cross

with owning guns.Some people would surely try to own

jets, helicopters, and other things that could technically be classified as a

weapon.That is when the government should step in to control the sale of those

things. Having those types of weapons in the hands in the public could lead to

a disaster if they were used wrong.

Unenforceable Gun Laws

People that are against the possession of guns would claim that regulating illegal guns is impossible.There is the black market and all the private sales that an illegal candidate could obtain weapons. In turn the government or the state would have to watch over both of those sales. -Which would be an impossibility.

However…The black market is practically

impossible to stop, but responsible citizens can turn in anyone who have

illegal guns.The police can then simply follow

the illegal line of sales to shut down small black market.

The police force will also need to be ready to deal with those kinds of

situations.

Enforcing the gun control would

reduce suicides/homicides

"Nearly 20,000 of the 30,000 deaths from guns in the United States in 2010 were suicides" "To Reduce Suicide Rates, New Focus Turns to Guns" New York Times

Suicide attempts made with guns are ussually more successful

Many families mourn and suffer because of a loved one acting under stress or depression or just irrationally.

Disarm population

As I mentioned before the fear that I personally have is that the Government would disarm us.

You can think I’m crazy but if you look into the past you’ll see that disarming the population usually is the start of a dictatorship.

My example before was Hitler in Germany. Joseph Stalin also created a dictatorship shortly after disarming people.

The purpose to have guns was to keep our freedom and to keep the government working for us, not us enslaved by the government.

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