To Carry or Not to
Carry
Part 4: What the
Future Holds
The current climate for control of guns sales in our country
is heated and has two prominent sides. The supporters for less gun control on
the one side while their opposition who favors more gun control. These two
sides have lobbying group that will pay through the nose for their side to vote
the way they want. This fuels the already blazing inferno that is the debate of
gun control. This is what is wrong currently with the gun control debate. This
flawed debate causes flawed legislation that causes flawed enforcements of
laws. So to fix this problem we need to have the lobbying groups step back and
allow our legislatures to do their jobs.
One of the problems I have
mentioned are the lobbying groups that spend huge amounts of money to influence
legislatures. The NRA
is the largest and most influential of all of the lobbying groups- in fact it’s
the most influential interest group in America.(McCarthy)
As shown in the cart to on the right the NRA spent just under three and a half
million dollars. This money goes straight to legislatures. This is the
equivalent to legal bribery. So if we really want a fair and consistent
legislation we need to stop the bribery so our congress can do what we voted
them in for.
Also as I was reflecting on my other essays- especially part
three- I keep thinking about how flawed our laws are and how they affect mostly
the law abiders and not the illegal buyers. What is the point of having these
laws if they work as much as net with holes in it. We should insist that
congress pass new laws or amend their predecessors to improve safety all around
for everybody. While I was researching I googled background check and found www.instantcheckmate.com. With this website you can enter
a person’s basic information like where they live and their age and you can
find their anything bad they could be trying to hide. With check as easy as
this background checks should be a normal procedure.
So with just these simple things we can improve our current system
of gun sales and laws. With these improved the violence related to guns should
also start to diminish. And if gun violence starts to diminish that should be
the real indicator of our new system working.
Works Cited
McCarthy, Joe. “Top 25 Most
Influential Interest Groups In the US” Occidental
Enclave. N.p. n.d. May 1, 2014. <http://www.occidentalenclave.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1020&p=4555>
“Annual Lobbying by Nation Rifle ASSN” Open Secrets. N.p. n.d. May 1, 2014. <http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/clientsum.php?id=D000000082>
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