Wrong People Owing Guns
Autor: pauline britt • July 3, 2015 • Term Paper • 851 Words (4 Pages) • 809 Views
Wrong People Owning Guns
Calvin Madison
ENG/147 (AAIJ1GHU60)
May 4, 2015
University of Phoenix
Wrong People Owing Guns
A lot of the crimes that are being conducted is being done by guns. These weapons are being used in stupid and senseless crimes. When these weapons are being used who can we trust. Guns are being used to kill innocent people and they are being owned by law enforcers. This is not cool at all; the law enforcers are here to protect and server the people in the community. They did not swear under oath to kill innocent people. Hey, this is what is going on with the world now.
Honestly, who can a person trust if the law enforcers are targeting people (innocent ones at that). The world we live in suppose to have laws that protect the citizens. By the looks at it these laws are not working at all. “Keeping firearms out of the hands of dangerous and irresponsible people is one of , if not the primary goal of United States gun control policy” (Jacobs and Potter, 1995, p. 93). Can the government actually enforce harsher laws if the government is the ones committing such act? With issues like this, can the black market be held solely for the out of control gun problems? A lot of unanswered questions are going unnoticed due to these guns being in the wrong people hands. If this issue is not fixed or addressed a lot dead people will be calculated in the current total. Can the United States take anymore tragedies of innocent people lives being taking?
It is already established that there are gun laws out here and the citizens are suppose to be protected. With all these extra measures in place from keeping the wrong people away from guns; people are still getting their hands on them. Where do these extra measures fit into the gun equation. According to Jacobs and Potters (1995),
“Both federal substantive criminal law and federal administrative law contribute to the regulatory effort. The former makes it a crime for ex-felons and other ineligible persons to possess a firearm. The federal "felon-in-possession" law makes it a crime for any person convicted of a state or federal felony to possess a firearm; the same prohibition also applies to drug users, former mental patients, and illegal aliens” (p. 94).
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