Thesis+and+questions

Nick Delacato

Thesis: Many Americans believe that guns are horrible weapons only used to cause harm and they should all be outlawed, our second amendment of "the right to bear arms" is being claimed to have been from a different age essentially dismissing its existence. However since the "gun control" revolution in Washington D.C. crime has increased dramatically; guns stop crime, they don't cause it.

Title Card: The Beginning of Gun Control
 * Since the Roosevelt administration in 1937, the infringement of our second ammendment right as American citizens had begun to be stripped away. The issue with that people had with guns were that they were afraid of being hurt, when in reality they should have acquired their own guns. Many reports show that once guns are stripped from the citizens many more violent crimes (shootings) are appearing in the area in which guns are outlawed.
 * The people who would rather have the government control their defense than themselves had no understanding of what guns, even unloaded ones are capable of. A gun instills a kind of primal fear in another, causing them to rethink their actions. Gun Control in the 1930s was the new push as healthcare is today (2011), people believed it would be the "penicillin of the crime in the U.S.", they were wrong.
 * Gun Control, until the Clinton administration sat relatively untouched by the government, partially due to bigger issues in the world, and partially due to the numerous amounts of U.S. citizens who opposed the changes in the laws regarding gun control and use. Clintons addition to the gun control laws was "assault weapons ban" which technically speaking are not actually a classification of weapon, they are often referred to as fully automatic or machine guns (due to their highly mechanical nature).

Title Card: The Crimes of Gun Control
 * The issue with entirely banning guns is that although it may appear to cause less crime, in every situation that it has been successfully banned the crime rates in fact rose by a significant amount due to the fact that a person who used a gun before can no longer protect him or herself.
 * In London, England and Washington, D.C. the same thing happened once guns were removed from the people. Both had significantly lower crime rates for about a year, then the crime exploded upwards and multiple shootings were happening each and everyday. Some prison inmates caught for there crimes in D.C. went on camera for the NRA (national rifle association) saying "we don't really care what the laws are, were criminals. Im going to have a gun on me no matter what anyone tells me." A valid argument against gun control, because the people causing the crime are the ones who still have guns illegally.
 * In London, the gun control topic has been far lest dramatic as it has been in the U.S. due to the fact that it was never in the english constitution.

Title Card: The Correct way to Handle a Firearm
 * In America, the constitution states " A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." all Americans who had their firearms taken away from them should have them returned and the laws against any form of firearm should be lifted and HEAVILY looked at.
 * The laws regarding assault rifles should be renamed and lessened, due to the fact that it, again is not a actual type of weapon.
 * People who had crimes charged against them in the District of Columbia, for owning or discharging a firearm during the ban from 1975-2008 should have the crime annulled from their record and should be given a apology.
 * Guns are a very strong deterrence against crime, they should never be stripped from a person unless that person has at some point in his or her life been labeled a convicted felon.

Title Card: End