Monday, June 30, 2008

Supreme Court Decison on banning Handguns

According to “Beltway 08” believes that the US Supreme Court made a mistake is a 5-4 decision against the ban of handguns. Well I have to disagree, now I do not believe that killing people with guns or any other type of weapon is humane but I do believe that sometimes they may come in handy one time or other. I also believe that not everyone should have one and to have a handgun it needs to be legal and the owner needs a license with the gun registered to the owner’s name. I think that parents should not allow their children to know they have this gun that way it will not end up in the wrong hands and turn into events like Virginia Tech and Columbian. Not everybody who owns a handgun is going to go shoot people a lot of people now a days have them for protection against people and against animals if they are hunters. Even though England has less deaths by a gun because the only people are allowed to have one doesn’t meant that it will lower the crime rate in the US because I believe that we have more crimes because of the amount of diversity that the US entitles. The Violence policy center says that the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution allows individuals the right to possess a firearm. This is the first time that the Supreme Court has sided with the constitution instead of a right that applies to state militia.