... protect life and property of its citizens. These has to be done without discriminating its citizens based on their religion, race, political affiliations, and other social constructs. The federal government understands its mandate and roles as stipulated in the supreme law and has strived to formulate and enact laws that will enhance national security and guarantee individuals' maximum safety. Currently, the federal ... , but this is not the case. Based on this assertion, it is clear that strengthening gun control law does not warrant less crime rate in the country. The enactment of stri...

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... for lenient gun laws. Hence, gun control is a frequently discussed controversial topic in American politics. Although the Second Amendment prevents the federal government from completely banning guns in America, limited restrictions are allowed on the distribution and possession of firearms. Certain groups of people such as criminals ... without thorough legal investigation. The ease that a criminal can regain the right to bear arms is alarming and dangerous. A stricter gun law would provide much needed supplementation to the faulty background checks and loose laws that provide criminals ...

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... created through numerous compromises between the opposing sides. Today, the debate goes on between the contemporary political parties; the Republicans and Democrats. While the Democrats favor a large federal government to equalize and homogenize policies across state borders, the Republicans believe governmental power and resources should be kept close to the people, through their state and community representatives. One ... , unregulated sales. For example, gun shows around the country serve as the largest marketplace for private sellers who can easily connect with customers looking to a...

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... raised a prominent question for society: Should stricter gun control laws be enforced to reduce violence even though citizens have the right to bear arms? The most sweeping Federal Gun Law was passed in 1968 with long lasting consequences. Ben Garrett believes that it was an assassination attempt on president –elect Franklin D.Roosevelt which left Chicago mayor Anton Cermak ... possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation" (2). The final important issue regarding background on this topic that has rekindled this heated debate is the massive shootings. The government, social scienti...

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... the disarming of the populace as essential to the maintenance of his orderly and autocratic system. Niccolo Machiavelli, an Italian political philosopher, believed that the best protection against a corrupt government was the economic independence of the citizens and his ability and willingness to become a warrior. Machiavelli believed that arms were essential in order for individuals to protect himself, hunt, ... century possessing arms, for both personal protection and to counter balance political oppression, was viewed as a basic right in England and the new colonies. Much of America...

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... in Canada] as something to be expected in a society which has less respect for the rule of law than does Canadian society..."(139). Therefore, in 1977, the Canadian government took the initiative to legislate stricter gun control. Among the provisions legislated by the C anadian government was a "Firearms Acquisition Certificate" for the purchase of any firearm. It also strengthened the "registration ... requirements for handguns and other restricted weapons..." The law's intention was to reduce the availability of firearms, on the assumption that there is a "positive relationship betwee...

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... today, both regulating and enforcing laws dealing not only with alcohol, tobacco and firearms, but explosives as well. They also support and assist all levels of domestic and international law enforcement when called upon to do so. ATF is responsible for developing the first Integrated Ballistics Identification System that is a computer program that can match the weapon to the ... domestic products. In the tobacco industry, agents are responsible for qualifying applicants for manufacturing and exporting permits and for investigating illegal trafficking of cigarettes, a crime that defrauds...

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... is a not a debate over the pro-gun or anti-gun culture. Rather it entails the fundamental issues of law and government and the rights of every American citizen to enjoy life and pursue happiness. The pro-gun lobbyists and the National ... armed marches on, paralleling the path forged by the Framer's of the Constitution from John Locke's The Second Treatise of Government. His theory thrived on the dissolution of law and government and return to the State of Nature. To paraphrase Hannah Pitkin's 1965 paper, Obligation and Consent I, "What matters ... to Locke is not really whether one ha...

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... in a privately owned space only affects those who choose to enter it. In addition, it is important to mention that Locke would say that the government should not make rules that deny the people the right of decision-making, which banning smoking would do. As compared to Locke, Hobbes would approach ... the smoking issue much differently. He would say that the government should decide where, when, and if it was legal to smoke. Unlike Locke, Hobbes believed that if given the choice, people would take advantage of ... to the sovereign to decide what was in the public's best interest. Hobbes...

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... that a handgun, therefore inflicting a more severe wound. (Mauser 108) What all of this information seems to conclude is that the average law abiding citizen will not be a threat to society be being able to have a personal firearm for protection. The government has a responsibility to create and enforce reasonable laws that are designed to ensure that persons obtaining a firearm are mentally competent to ... Michigan, it seems reasonable to conclude that the police acknowledge the fact that they cannot be present at all times to protect individuals from acts of violence and that compete...

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... to kill people, and there is no talk of regulating or banning them. The National Rifle Association generally believes that if more ordinary, law-abiding citizens carried weapons, criminals would not have a safe place to commit mass murders and other violent crimes. Both supporters and opponents of ... firearms in crimes. They maintain that interdiction will not have any effect on crime but will strip away the constitutional rights and privileges of law-abiding Americans by taking away their right to own guns. On the other hands, advocates of interdiction, led by such organizations as Han...

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... . When the Constitution was written, we had just gotten out of the Revolutionary War and the United States was a very weak and unorganized government. Essentially, the United States was a target and susceptible to any other nation looking to gain power. Times have changed. During that time, ... there is some background information on how the concealed weapons license program works. Concealed Weapons programs are handled by each individual state where each law regarding carrying concealed weapons is different. The State of North Carolina is defined as a "Shall-issue" along with 40 other st...

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... once more, on the controversial issue of gun control and the Second Amendment, a debate that always stirs up passionate emotions and intense opinions. Opponents of gun control reject any law that bans or restricts guns in any form as unconstitutional, they ignore all legal history and modern implications surrounding the Second Amendment.. The most misunderstood provision contained in the Bill ... Similarly, there must be strict air wave regulation in radio broadcasting, because it would be impossible to communicate if everyone had uncontrollable rights to the frequencies. By analogy, the...

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... where students are scared to attended school in fear of being shot dead? It is a pity that it takes an incident such as this to open the eyes of our government, and lives to be lost before our insufficient gun laws are exposed. Studies have shown that the relationship between handgun homicide rates and overall homicides rates are almost perfectly linear ... the greater number of guns that are available in a community the more frequently they will be used in personal violence. And although there may be a proportion of "law-abiding citizens " who follow the law, it is often them who suppl...

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... people convicted of certain crimes and increasing sentences for those convicted of using guns in crime. Also in the 1999 poll, nearly seventy percent of the respondents agreed that the government should do "everything it can to keep handguns out of the hands of criminals, even if it means that it will be harder for ... law-abiding citizens to purchase handguns-(Smith 3). Clearly, most Americans want to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, even those that are convicted of misdemeanors. Upon executing these surveys, ... controversy. Gun control opponents say that the "Second Amendme...

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Introduction John Lott holds a PhD in Economics and teaches criminal deterrence, law and economics at the University of Chicago. Lott is a well-respected author, having published over seventy articles in academic journals. In his first book More Guns, Less Crime, Lott discusses ... , and economical principles associated with gun control and crime. The references used by the author are current, and credible. The resource literature collection is from research articles, a variety of journals, government agencies, descriptive studies and textbooks. Lott's findings are very convincing because he ...

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