Your governor is getting ready to sign a new law in your state, called the "Constitutional Right to Carry Act," that will eliminate the state's permit and training requirements for citizens who want to carry guns. This means that a resident of your state who wants to carry a weapon, concealed or otherwise, can do so without a background check or a gun safety test. Balancing the right to bear arms

Question

against the need to control gun violence, present a brief opinion on the advisability of such a law.

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

This law would effectively eliminate any controls over carrying weapons and, in the view of an advocate of gun rights, would appear to be the optimal situation—no controls at all. However, we should expect the student to consider the impact of no control over background checks on gun use, as it might result in possession of guns by people who cannot use them safely or who have convictions for violent crimes.