We should all realize the common attitudes and views of the various states’ residents and voters can differ, and this is becoming apparent as more states worry over the federal government’s attempts to place increasingly more restrictive laws on firearm ownership by law-abiding citizens. On the heels of the historic Supreme Court ruling last year that the Second Amendment meant U.S. citizens of sound mind and clean records had the right to own firearms, governments, both at state and federal levels, are attempting to creatively circumvent that ruling. But in doing so, they have seemingly opened a Pandora’s Box of challenges and opposite effects.

Recent polls say that a majority of Americans no longer believe that stricter gun laws actually accomplish anything to diminish crime. Daily newspapers across the country are polling readership and finding, in the words of editor-in-chief of the Gallup Poll, Frank Newport "every piece of data is showing us Americans are getting more conservative about gun control."