CONTROVERSIES
Gun Control Issues
-Children with Guns
-School Gun Shootings
-Untrained people with guns
-School Gun Shootings
-Untrained people with guns
Lower Federal Courts Interpret 2nd Amendment as:
-not applying to the states
-a vice individual right
-applied to the militia
-protected only the situations when it can be proved someone with a gun/weapon is related with a well-regulated militia
-a vice individual right
-applied to the militia
-protected only the situations when it can be proved someone with a gun/weapon is related with a well-regulated militia
US Attorney General:
-Eric Holder (Attorney General) argued that 2nd amendment only protects government militia
-Believed 2nd Amendment didn't impose gun bans
-Supported:
-Gun Bans
- Registration
- Licensing
-One-gun-a-month limit on purchases and mandatory waiting periods.
-Used to oversee the background check system in the Clinton Justice Department
-Didn't explain while there were so many consistent screw ups and failures while he was running it
-Believed 2nd Amendment didn't impose gun bans
-Supported:
-Gun Bans
- Registration
- Licensing
-One-gun-a-month limit on purchases and mandatory waiting periods.
-Used to oversee the background check system in the Clinton Justice Department
-Didn't explain while there were so many consistent screw ups and failures while he was running it