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Sunday, July 6, 2014

Cheap Ammo Does Not Have To Mean A Compromise On Quality

By Rosella Campbell


The second Amendment allows Americans the ability to "bear arms". This phrase doesn't mean that they should have a military or police grade arsenal in their possession. Available weapons and cheap ammo get into the wrong hands. Lax gun control issues allow criminals to have firepower that is nearly identical to the weapons that soldiers and officers use. School shooters have the ability to take more victims. Black market sales fuel criminal empires that span across the borders. Gun control in America today needs to be reconsidered and enforced.

The United States Constitution is fairly clear as to what it intends to do. It outlines the mission of the United States and the rights that its citizens can enjoy. The second amendment lays out the right of the people to bear arms. This is meant to reinforce the people's ability to govern themselves and to defend themselves and their property against nefarious minds.

Often times, police can find themselves outgunned in the US. Criminals have access to more firearms than in many other western nations. A huge amount of the population are legal gun owners and the market is flooded. Keeping them out of the wrong hands gets more and more difficult with every weapon that is legally sold. It means that there is one more weapon to choose from and the market is flooded that much more.

Having access not only to weapons and ammo, but also to accessories that add firepower to weapons makes it easier for mass murderers to claim victims. If a shooter has a magazine that adds 30 rounds to the gun's capacity, it means that they have 30 shots that they otherwise wouldn't have had. Things like extended magazines allow for rampages that would be more difficult if access was more difficult.

What both sides are concerned with is the sale and availability of weapons and ammunition. You can control weapons by making them or the necessary rounds prohibitively expensive. If an area makes it nearly impossible to shoot, the consequences will be considered on a financial level before much else. The weapon can be cheap but if rounds are hundreds of dollars per shot then each shot is an investment.

If having a gun is a crime, the only people who will have them are criminals. Outlawing guns will not stop people from owning them, it will only make it easier for criminals to have the upper hand. Millions of Americans responsibly own firearms and enjoy the security of having them. Those people know that if someone breaks into their home with a knife, the situation is weighed in their favor.

Gun control in America needs to be reconsidered. That phrase is often looked at as if it is a "dirty" thing to say, as if it is unconstitutional and beyond consideration. The fact is that the constitution allows for change if it is enacted by the people. An overhaul of the gun control laws would be good for the American people and the people who are affected by the surplus of weapons.

Allowing gun control to take a hold in the United States is not a step that constitutionally minded people will let happen. The country was founded on many principles, one of which is clearly, that the people have the right to arm and defend themselves. Weapons should always be available to legal, responsible consumers.




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