Pro and Anti Gun Control

http://gunowners.org/

Anti-Gun Control
This website is the Gun Owners of America (GOA) which is a non-profit organisation and their mission is to defend the second amendment and to preserve the American peoples right to bear arms. The GOA was founded in 1975 and on their website they state that "Americans have lost some of our precious gun rights and we want them back". The GOA have a record of helping pro-gun candidates defeat anti-gun candidates and many of the organisations which are associated with the GOA help to raise funds to support the election of pro-gun candidates on all levels of government. The GOA claim that they are doing this to protect the American peoples second amendment rights and their freedom.

On this web-page women and guns are spoke of, Karen De Coster a member of the GOA says that many women are afraid of guns and that there is no reason to be afraid of one thing women can depend on using to protect themselves. Coster says women think a certain way because of Oprah, she says "the Oprah way is to trust everyone and insist that all people have good intentions" she also says that "a person who accepts defencelessness is unnatural, cowardly and pathetic. Ladies boycott that mentality by turning Oprah off and giving guns and your life a chance".

Just because Americans have a right to bear arms doesn't mean that they have to have a weapon and here I think the GOA are using fear that if you don't have a gun to protect yourself and your family your life is at risk because you are acting “cowardly and pathetic”. By using words like these it is like bullying someone into believing that having a gun is the right thing to to because its the “American” thing to do. Also I don't think Oprah is to blame for why so many women don't have gun's or that so many women are afraid of gun's! Women are fearful of guns because of the way in which they are used, its the violent use of a gun, they are used to kill people sometimes in self defence but if there had been gun control things like Columbine wouldn't have happened.

http://www.bradycampaign.org/

Pro-Gun Control
The Brady Campaign work to prevent gun violence, their aim is not to ban firearms but to restrict which weapons can be obtained by the general public and to ensure that weapons are not purchased by the wrong people, for example convicted felons and people with mental illnesses. The Organization was founded on 1974 and called the National Council to Control Handguns and then was renamed Handgun Control Inc. (HCI) in 1980 then renamed again in 2001 as the Brady Campaign. Laws have already been passed because of the work of the Brady campaign, for example it is now required by law that all licensed gun dealers must run a background check on anyone who wants to purchase firearms and there is a limit as to how many firearms can be purchased at once.

This will continue to be an unresolved issue in America because there are so many people who think that by giving up some of their rights to own certain weapons which aren't really necessary for the general public to own is unconstitutional. I agree with the work of the Brady Campaign because its still allowing Americans to have their second amendment right and it is making America safer place for its citizens. Also the work that the Brady Campaign have done and perhaps will do will be the closest America will ever come to some form of gun control. But because of organizations such as the GOA it will be very difficult for legislation to be passed on the matter of gun control.