Research Proposal

Studies show that an estimated 55 million Americans own guns (USA Today). Guns are mainly used for protection, but are often debated whether if that is a fact. Recently, America has faced an attack in Las Vegas which is stated to be the biggest mass shooting in American shooting. As noted, there are other mass shootings that took place in American history, which sparked the on-going question: Should guns be legal? This is not an easy question, nor does it have a straight answer. Although discussed in politics, the media, even in everyday life, no one can ever find the right answer, or complete it. That is why I made this proposal to help understand the importance of gun control, why it is being discussed, and showing both the pros and cons. I also want to discuss the nature of it, why it was created, the history of the second amendment and its importance up to this day. This has been a topic that has been debated for generations, and by creating this paper, the community and I could have a better understanding behind gun control.
Not many know the legality of gun control, which is I wanted to make a research paper about it in the first place. The second amendment has many backgrounds to it, and is interpreted in many ways. I want to discuss the main arguments, or in other words the different interpretations of the second amendment, and how that affects the gun laws. Since the mass shootings have been a common discussion around political ideas, I want to write more about the way it is being handled in society. There have been arguments made that although there are mass shootings, there are also everyday shootings happening in areas that are mainly populated with minorities. I also want to know how people are easily getting these weapons, how the law affects this way of getting guns. There are reasons why people could easily get these weapons, which I want to research to understand how these mass shootings can happen.
I will be researching most of the topics that I have discussed already, and from the research I can help bring an answer, or maybe a stance that all sides can relate. There are many arguments to write about when making the essay, but most of them bring a huge part of what makes the gun laws the way they are. By doing this research, it could possibly help understand why gun violence is a problem in American society, since it has not been known to happen outside of the country that often.

Work Cited

“3% of Americans own half the country's 265 million guns.” USA Today,
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/09/22/study-guns-owners-violence/90858752/. Accessed 14 October 2017.
Ratliff, Bradley. "The Second Amendment: An Analysis of Interpretations." Appalachian
Journal of Law, vol. 15, no. 1, 2016, pp. 83-97.
Santilli, Alycia, et al. "Bridging the Response to Mass Shootings and Urban Violence: Exposure

to Violence in New Haven, Connecticut." American Journal of Public Health, vol. 107, no. 3, 2017, pp. 374-379.

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