Guns don’t kill people. It’s the people that use the guns that are really killing them. You can’t blame a gun for killing someone just like you can’t blame the fork or the spoon for making people fat. A gun is simply a tool created by man to be used for self defense, hunting, and sport. The ones who make it a weapon for killing are the ones that decide to use it for those killings. Although more gun laws may keep some people from committing crimes, it will also keep many people from being able to defend themselves from the criminals that are still getting guns illegally.
“About 80 million Americans, representing 50 percent of U.S. homes, own 223 million guns.” (Bitto & Juliano) According to this statistic over a quarter of the U.S. population owns a gun of some kind. If the guns were all taken away that is a quarter of the population of the U.S. that would be angry at the government. That is a quarter of the population that will try to defend their 2nd amendment right to bear arms. Our founding fathers knew that guns would evolve to be much more advanced than they were at the time of the writing of the Constitution. Even though they knew they would evolve they still said that the citizens had the right to bear arms. The founding father believed that the people of the U.S. deserved guns and so do a lot of people in the country today. Even in other countries people believe in having guns. Barack Obama said, “the United States is not the only country on earth with violent or dangerous people.” (Obama) This is absolutely true. In Mexico the availability of guns is rather low, but its crime rate is very high. Just look at all of the drug cartels and things of that nature that go on in Mexico all the time. Even with less availability of guns there is still a lot of crime in Mexico. Not being able to get guns easily did not keep Mexico from having a lot of problems with crime so it also might not lower much crime in the U.S. Guns may not be the problem. “Right after the Columbine school shootings in 1999, support for gun control skyrocketed, as to be expected. However, since then, ABC/The Washington Post, Pew, and Gallup, have all found support for gun control to be decreasing greatly over the last 13 years.” (pros …show more content…
can’t go around blaming all of our problems on guns. The gun isn’t the one that is making the choice to hurt someone. If someone really feels such a compelling urge to hurt someone they will do it regardless of whether they use a gun or a knife or something worse. But as LaPierre of the N.R.A. said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” (Smith) If the people that are getting hurt didn’t have a way to defend themselves from the bad guy with a weapon then worse things will happen. For example at a community college in Oregon 9 people were killed and 20 were injured due to a mass shooter. These deaths could have been prevented if someone there had had a gun, but because no one there had a gun the shooter had free control over everyone and took the lives of 9 innocent college students and possibly ruined 20
“About 80 million Americans, representing 50 percent of U.S. homes, own 223 million guns.” (Bitto & Juliano) According to this statistic over a quarter of the U.S. population owns a gun of some kind. If the guns were all taken away that is a quarter of the population of the U.S. that would be angry at the government. That is a quarter of the population that will try to defend their 2nd amendment right to bear arms. Our founding fathers knew that guns would evolve to be much more advanced than they were at the time of the writing of the Constitution. Even though they knew they would evolve they still said that the citizens had the right to bear arms. The founding father believed that the people of the U.S. deserved guns and so do a lot of people in the country today. Even in other countries people believe in having guns. Barack Obama said, “the United States is not the only country on earth with violent or dangerous people.” (Obama) This is absolutely true. In Mexico the availability of guns is rather low, but its crime rate is very high. Just look at all of the drug cartels and things of that nature that go on in Mexico all the time. Even with less availability of guns there is still a lot of crime in Mexico. Not being able to get guns easily did not keep Mexico from having a lot of problems with crime so it also might not lower much crime in the U.S. Guns may not be the problem. “Right after the Columbine school shootings in 1999, support for gun control skyrocketed, as to be expected. However, since then, ABC/The Washington Post, Pew, and Gallup, have all found support for gun control to be decreasing greatly over the last 13 years.” (pros …show more content…
can’t go around blaming all of our problems on guns. The gun isn’t the one that is making the choice to hurt someone. If someone really feels such a compelling urge to hurt someone they will do it regardless of whether they use a gun or a knife or something worse. But as LaPierre of the N.R.A. said, “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” (Smith) If the people that are getting hurt didn’t have a way to defend themselves from the bad guy with a weapon then worse things will happen. For example at a community college in Oregon 9 people were killed and 20 were injured due to a mass shooter. These deaths could have been prevented if someone there had had a gun, but because no one there had a gun the shooter had free control over everyone and took the lives of 9 innocent college students and possibly ruined 20