Gun control usage and international considerations

 

Gun Control usage and International Considerations

 

Gun control

Gun control relates to the domestic regulation of firearm manufacturing, trade, ownership, usage, and transport, particularly concerning the small arms category of firearms (revolvers and self-loading handguns, shotguns and pistols, automatic rifles, submachine guns, small machine guns) (Greene-Colozzi & Silva, 2020). Gun control is classified as restricting the public's access to weapons and certain types of guns (J. D. Brown & Goodin, 2018).

Introduction

Gun control refers to the policy, regulation, and execution of laws to restrict access to, ownership of, or use of weapons, including firearms. Artillery policy remains one of several nations' most controversial and emotional issues. The debate is mostly focused on whether limits on individual arms-bearing rights represent an unconstitutional violation of freedom and whether the connection is arms and crime. Advocates of weapons regulation contend that strict application of arms control legislation saves life and avoids abuse. In contrast to these, proponents of arms control argue that restricting the supply of handguns guarantees that civilians have enough self-defense and that more arms are available in safer communities. In various measures taken by Congress since the 1930s, gun control has been shown (Metzger, 2017). It is difficult to explain why there is weapons safety. According to the Second Amendment, the United States government insists that civilians have the freedom to bear arms. However, a lack of firearms control has resulted in several reports of gun abuse, prompting Congress to take action. Gun violence is at the forefront of gun control in the United States, from the murders of important elected figures to mass shootings (Soto, Chheda, & Soto, 2020).

A debate on gun control has erupted, with various groups debating their respective positions on gun crime and gun control measures in light of school shootings and homicides. For example, there is an assertion that most of America's daily firearm violence is concentrated in the poorest, most culturally isolated areas. There is high unemployment, poor school districts, and high levels of police/personnel suspicion in neighborhoods. The study reports that Africans make up about 13% of the total population in general cases of gun killings. Besides, about fifteen of 30 people killed each day by arms are dark-skinned me (Bitz, 2017).

Gun control, usage, or misusage

Weapons are versatile tools that can supply meat, kill creatures and rats, give people a relaxing experience and defend lives and property from illegal predators. They are also useful tools for supplying food for the table, and they are especially common in rural life, where wildlife is both a threat and a leisure opportunity. However, with America increasingly technological and violent, the demand for guns was largely driven by the need to stand up against other people.(Finley & Esposito, 2019).

International Considerations

Gun regulation is a global concern, apiece nation taking the exclusive authority to govern weapons inside its boundaries (Burkle, 2020). There are strict weapons protection regulations in effect in the vast majority of western countries. Except in some conditions, Japan limits possession and use of all weapons. The EU has prohibited the transport of arms(R. B. Brown, 2020). Germany requires certain guns to be possessed so long as that individual meets the license for firearms(Amoroso, Frank, Noel, Lucy, & Guglielmo, 2018). The possession of handguns is still banned in Canada and the European Union.

The Historical Roots of Gun Regulation

As the control of weapons imposes moral limitations upon weapons, it has its roots in ancient Rome to protect democratic societies. Weapons are used in Rome as a way of maintaining permanent armies. To prohibit these armies from undermining or overthrowing civil government, the Rubicon crossing of military equipment has been outlawed in Roman legislation (Fezzi, 2020). The law remained valid until Julius Caesar challenged it by retaining a standing Army as the Roman emperor, a historic act that reminds of the decline of the Roman Empire(Strauss, 2020).Both the Bill of Rights (officially a Declaration of the Rights and Liberties of the Topic, 1689) and the United States Constitution contain provisions that forbid the preservation of permanent armed forces during peace times without the permission of the legislative branch.(Jacob, 2019).

In England, arms were also governed in socio-economic terms by Parliament and the Crown.(Jacob, 2019). In 1649, John Sadler wrote in his book English Reformer and MP. "The Rights of the Kingdom," (Coster, 2018) "Men ought indeed to have Arms, and them to keep in Readiness for Defense of the King and Kingdom," (Charles, 2009) but Senate demarcated which menfolk were to "provide and bear arms, how, and when, and where." It is worth noting that firearms were used primarily as ways of protecting the realm in general. Even because of this, though, the government regulated arms closely to ensure they were ready for public safety and were not in risky hands. For example, during the reign of Henry VIII (1509–47), a ban on "weapons" and "self-protection devices" was enforced on all cities, settlements, marketplaces or other churches but with such a fuss (a practice whereby criminals were pursued with cries and sounds of alarm)(Krouse, 2012).Other gun-control legislation passed by Henry VIII included limits on the length of firearms, who could own them, and where and when they could be shot(Wright, Rossi, & Daly, 1983).

In England, gun safety was not a matter for parliamentary debate. From the mid 17th to the late 18th centuries, however, parliamentarians had enacted legislation aimed at abolishing weapons restrictions and the possession and maintenance of guns by English housemates to defend the territory. In the Convention which drafted the English Declaration of Rights in 1689 for example,(Jacob, 2019)Thomas Erle, a former general and associate of Legislature, suggested that "every substantial householder in every town or city should be equipped with a good musket in case of invasion." An analogous suggestion was prepared in 1693 to encourage every Protestant to hold a musket "for the protection of the country." (Jacob, 2019)Such plans, however, collapsed because they would "arm the mob" and hence were deemed "not so safe for every government."

Of course, security safety wasn't the only excuse for the enforcement in England of gun laws. Gun rules have also been applied to encourage game shooting or the right of hunters to protect gambling as well as to stop crime and assassinations. In the 1950s, Scottish thinker and historian Adam Ferguson argued that, while there would be "few domestic in comfort," this could not "determine us from the steps needed" to prepare the people for "our own defense, against an enemy from abroad." Some Jenyns, the writer and member of the English Parliament, also defended arms control in order to promote the establishment of national militia. Although "accidents [such as murder] could sometimes occur," he concluded that it didn't matter because "any man" in the militia would "beget three Children before he kills one Man."

At the end of the day, no such arguments have any bearing on England's former arms rules. In mid-18th century, when militia reform was enacted, George II ensured that the local lords kept all the militia arms. This was a custom from the 1550s, during the reign of Mary I(Johnson, 2018).

Arms Control in United States

The United States colonies had various laws on security, terrorism, hunting, global protection, and even arms slavery, like England. Nevertheless, in two ways the American colonies differed from the rules of the British arms control (Cornell & DeDino, 2004). The first is that the American colonies, besides the restrictions imposed upon the use, regulation and possession of weapons. Second, a chosen social militia was not commissioned by the American colonies. They recommended a bill to keep handguns and other state protection provisions from men of all backgrounds.

The works of Niccol Machiavelli, an Italian political scientist and theorist, James Harrington, a British philosopher, Sidney and John Trenched were all based on the value of weapons to defend the needs of the citizens of the republic. In the second amendment, the Constitution of the United States, which states that, "a well-regulated militia, which is necessary for the defence, shall not infringe upon the right of people to keep and bear arms," was codified further by this ideology of protected citizenship, where every person is a soldier and every soldier is a citizen. In particular in the late 19th and early 21st centuries, the precise meaning of the Second Amendment was heavily debated. The Supreme Court has recognized an individual's right in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) to possess military guns without serving a national militia and to use handguns for self-defense within the family (Larson, 2008).Furthermore, state legislatures are prohibited from enacting gun-control laws that contradicts the terms of their individual state constitutions (Pough, 2018).

In conclusion, gun safety in America remains a major concern and various American organizations view gun control laws, as well as gun crime and mass shootings, differently. In either case, according to reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigations and gunpolicy.org, the general handgun crime rate in the US is about 16 times higher than in France. So, in order to save the largest number of lives, we must regulate not only everyday crime but also mass shootings by the enforcement of gun control laws.

 

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