1. Brittany Cummings
Harold Blanco
16 February 2014
Opinion on Gun Control/Rights
There are much larger questions than whether or not I think there should
be stricter legislation that governs the purchasing of firearms. With the little I
know and (pathetically admitting) care to know about the detailed context of
which the Second Amendment was written, I feel as if the nation the nation was
originally at a good understanding that a citizen had a constitutional right to own
a firearm for their protection, whatever they might need to protect themselves
from. I fully recognize that not everyone agrees with this in the present day and I
see this dispute yielding from a change in not only the types of weapons that
citizens are now capable of purchasing, but also a dramatic change in gun
violence in society. Now, with a background check, one can purchase semiautomatic weapons. Being the type of person who would rather not hold a gun
even with the bullet chamber empty, I do not plan to ever have any sort of semiautomatic weapon but also have not been presented with a legitimate reason for
anyone to need one. This being said, I’m not educated enough to know if citizens
should have a constitutional right to weapons with such capacities for
ammunition. But I do believe that gun control legislation largely limits the wrong
group of people, that being the people who abide laws and would never commit
gun violence anyway.