Sunday, January 10, 2010

What Gun Owners Should Anticipate With a Democrat Administration

By Libby Thornton

Right after the presidential elections, rumors of changes in leadership styles and policies have spawn across the country. The change that is anticipated to happen is a double-edged sword that will affect the country positively and negatively. Because of the partisan differences, the transition of the government from the conservative republican to the more lax but pro-life democrats is expected. Obama's speeches during the campaign somehow gives insight that he will be crusading for gun-less America and will do all possible moves to refrain from engaging to wars. In a wide view and in the effect of the war on Afghanistan and Iraq, the sentiments of Obama are but an acceptable notion. However, there are some small things here that should not slip out of Obama's eyes as this might cause a grim situation. Gun-less America is not an answer to peaceful America, rather it is synonymous to defenseless Americans.

Criminal rates across the country heightened as crisis has not yet been leveled and that unemployment rate rose worst than those 30 years ago. Violence is expected to even increase as this crisis continues to be in effect and that its rehabilitation is way projected for about 5 years. Aside from the crisis, the country is already suffering from lawlessness because of some factors affecting security policies and other legislations. This malady is rather sad but can even become sadder if no immediate intervention can be done with it.

Businessmen in America are usually armed with guns for defense and order in their premises. Small businesses in addition depend on their guns to foster and advance safety of the business without having to pay for a security. Too unfortunate as projected, the next president is pro on passing stricter laws on gun ownership and dealership. The reason behind this is the simple notion that the lesser the guns being issued, the lower the crime that may happen. However, criminals do not always use licensed and issued guns, most of the time; guns used in crimes are smuggled. This is what contradicts the stated notion.

According to a legislation passed in Florida, a new gun regulation is to be implemented with greater emphasis on gun ownership and dealership and focused mainly on the conduct of background checking of all applicants for gun ownership and renewing gun owners. The concern also affects gun dealers in the state including those selling at show rooms, etc. Background check of gun owners and applicants has been done for quite sometime already. But according to Florida legislators, there are flaws in the law that they needed to revise it and make it stricter.

There are resistances however from some factions that say the revising of the existing law and the implementation may contradict the Constitution under Human Rights clause. But it was clarified that said law is not necessarily intended for enforcement but for dealership only. The law suggests that gun owners be mentally checked to make sure that the intention for the ownership of the gun is not for a possible retaliation. A criminal background check will refrain from providing unlawful person to own deadly weapons publicly.

With this present issue on gun ownership, it is truly easy to say that the penny has really two faces. Though it may sound safer to have guns for defense, it cannot be assured when there is an existing law that prohibits one, in superficial sense, to own a gun. Well, it might not be that the law prohibits, but because of the strict clauses in there makes it look something not regulating but prohibiting.

Libby Thornton is 41 years old, working as a marketing executive in a leading authority on the web when it comes to criminal background check with the largest background check database consisting of over 245 million criminal records is provided.

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