You wake up in the middle of the night to the sound of glass breaking. You have enough time to put your slippers on and as you walk to your door you hear a loud “bang!” Now you go and grab your bat and walk down the hallway to investigate and halfway down the hallway you notice a shadow lurking in your kitchen. Then right when you turn the corner you are face to face with the burglar a the first thing you do is swing the bat and protect your family that are waiting outside for the cops. The burglar then pulls a gun out and you have two choices fight or run for your life and get your family out of there. you chose to run for your life and get out of the house.
There are many reasons why I believe that everyone should be permitted to have guns to protect themselves from situations similar to these. Now i'm not saying everyone in the world is permitted to have one. I believe that there should be a certain set of rules and regulations to having a gun for instance a person should at least be 21 years old to have a gun and should take a gun safety class. They also have to be take a gun safety course which shows them how to use a gun properly. They also have to first graduate from these classes before they …show more content…
But this is not a perfect world. There are crazy, sick people in this world who would love to get their hands on a gun, and only to kill innocent people. The U.S is the leading country when it comes to mass shootings. We have had 133 shootings from the year 2000 to 2014. This just goes to show that if we don't have background checks when people buy guns, more lives will be lost with the pull of a trigger. That is why if we apply the rules and regulations along with background checks on the people try to buy a gun we have an easier time to separate the good people who are applicable to have guns vs those people who have had a experience with gun violence and along with other related
There are many reasons why I believe that everyone should be permitted to have guns to protect themselves from situations similar to these. Now i'm not saying everyone in the world is permitted to have one. I believe that there should be a certain set of rules and regulations to having a gun for instance a person should at least be 21 years old to have a gun and should take a gun safety class. They also have to be take a gun safety course which shows them how to use a gun properly. They also have to first graduate from these classes before they …show more content…
But this is not a perfect world. There are crazy, sick people in this world who would love to get their hands on a gun, and only to kill innocent people. The U.S is the leading country when it comes to mass shootings. We have had 133 shootings from the year 2000 to 2014. This just goes to show that if we don't have background checks when people buy guns, more lives will be lost with the pull of a trigger. That is why if we apply the rules and regulations along with background checks on the people try to buy a gun we have an easier time to separate the good people who are applicable to have guns vs those people who have had a experience with gun violence and along with other related