Should Adults Have the Right to Carry a Concealed Handgun? It is legal for an adult to carry a concealed handgun in all fifty states, some states require permits to do so and others do not. There are many reasons why adults should have the right to carry a concealed handgun, one being to protect themselves against armed criminals. Another one simply being that the second amendment gives them the right to and lastly concealed handguns could help potentially stop public shootings in their tracks.
Both women and men should have the right to arm themselves against criminals. Many people feel safer when carrying a concealed handgun, whether it is to defend themselves or their homes. Whether they are walking alone at night or passing through a neighborhood where the crime rates are high, having a gun would make a person a lot safer. According to criminologist Gary Kleck, "robbery and assault victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to …show more content…
In events of public shootings and massacres if at least one person has a handgun a lot of lives can be saved. For example in the December of 2007 an attacker open fired in a church, luckily there was a volunteer security guard with a handgun who shot him. Had that security guard not been there and a lot more people could have been injured or killed. . According to John R. Lott Jr.,, when states passed a concealed carry law from 1977 to 1995 multiple-victim shootings went down by 84%. People are going to say that guns are dangerous and having more of them on the streets would not be beneficial but that is not always the case. The media is always portraying gun violence and showing the negative sides of guns but never the positive. News networks will speak nonstop about how many people have lost their lives in shootings but they always fail to mention how many lives guns save every single
Both women and men should have the right to arm themselves against criminals. Many people feel safer when carrying a concealed handgun, whether it is to defend themselves or their homes. Whether they are walking alone at night or passing through a neighborhood where the crime rates are high, having a gun would make a person a lot safer. According to criminologist Gary Kleck, "robbery and assault victims who used a gun to resist were less likely to be attacked or to …show more content…
In events of public shootings and massacres if at least one person has a handgun a lot of lives can be saved. For example in the December of 2007 an attacker open fired in a church, luckily there was a volunteer security guard with a handgun who shot him. Had that security guard not been there and a lot more people could have been injured or killed. . According to John R. Lott Jr.,, when states passed a concealed carry law from 1977 to 1995 multiple-victim shootings went down by 84%. People are going to say that guns are dangerous and having more of them on the streets would not be beneficial but that is not always the case. The media is always portraying gun violence and showing the negative sides of guns but never the positive. News networks will speak nonstop about how many people have lost their lives in shootings but they always fail to mention how many lives guns save every single