Tuesday 3 November 2015

Pro and Anti Gun Websites

Anti-gun control website: https://www.nationalgunrights.org/

The National Association for Gun Rights seek to preserve the rights of the second amendment. They are a nonprofit, nonpartisan, single-purpose citizens' organisation dedicated to preserving and protecting the Constitutionally-protected right-to-keep-and-bear-arms through an aggressive program designed to mobilize public opposition to anti-gun legislation.They call people and groups that work towards gun control 'gun grabbers' and state that they are constantly working in the courts to uphold all American's second amendment rights as well as their first amendment rights, one of them being the right to protest unconstitutional government reach. 

The NAGR have over 3 million supporters and members and are located in Windsor, Colorado. The members and leaders of this organisation considers themselves defenders of the Constitution and will stop at nothing to keep the second amendment exactly the way it was written and to stop gun control. I do not agree with their point of view at all as they are not being realistic. It is obvious that these people, as most Americans are, very proud of their Constitution and wish to keep it intact. But they do not understand the dangers of allowing normal people to posses guns. Hundreds have been murdered by mass shootings in schools, people have been shot accidentally because, for example, a child was playing with a gun. They are ignoring these facts and this is very shocking to me. 

Pro-gun control website: http://everytown.org/

The 'We Are Everytown for Gun Safety' website/movement focuses on Americans coming together and working towards ending gun violence and building safer communities. They state that it is common sense for Washington leaders and gun lobby to implement steps that will save lives but that they have thwarted these efforts. Again, this movement has more than 3 million members and supporters and use the example of the young reporter who was killed due to a shooting that happened this year as the main headline on their website. They appeal to those who will sympathize with them, such as survivors of gun crime, mayors who hold the same views and mothers who want to protect their children.

They believe that background checks should be done on everyone who wishes to obtain a gun, they demand that everyone should know about the illegal gun sales that happen online as well as illegal gun trafficking, unintentional deaths should be stopped immediately and that suicides are more likely to occur when guns are more easily accessible. This website/movement is very much for the ordinary people of America and I firmly believe in the views they have. People should be made aware that the second amendment just does not work in American society anymore and that simple, common-sense measures should be taken to help save lives.



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