Since the beginning of the United States there has always been the big two, Anti Gun Control and Gun Control. They have battled head to head in the court of law making for some of the biggest showdowns of the last few centries. For some reason many people are against the ownership of guns, whether they believe it would make the community safer or they are just scared of them in general. On the other hand others are very enthusiastic of the right to own guns and believe that putting guns in the hands of people who know how to properly use them can make the community a safer place. Owning a gun is one of the fundamental rights that the U.S. constitution and it itself are built upon. It is the people 's right to behold the second amendment
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These proposals including banning almost all gun stores, universal gun registration, elimination of the right to bear arms, and the prohibition of many common firearms.”(Mexico Gun Control). Mexico thinks we are the reason they have so many illegally obtained guns and that by having similar laws there problem would be fixed. Really only around 10% of the illegal guns in mexico are from the U.S., and even if they did all come from the U.S. having similar gun laws would not stop the problem. The criminals would figure out another way to obtain the weapons and then it would be the U.S. and Mexico in the same …show more content…
They will get the gun illegally and try to do what they were planning. Gun control may slow down the perpetrator but it will also cause the target to be unarmed making him a sitting duck. If there was no gun control the target could protect himself and others to the best of his ability and odds are more lives would be saved without gun control then with. There are thousands of different examples were a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. One example is when Mr. Meli pulled out his concealed weapon when an armed gunman was shooting in a mall. All he had to do was point the gun at the man and he the gunman took his own life. This stopped the rampage and saved countless lives. Its interesting how we only hear about the bad things such as terrorist attacks or shootings and never how someone saved the day by stopping the
These proposals including banning almost all gun stores, universal gun registration, elimination of the right to bear arms, and the prohibition of many common firearms.”(Mexico Gun Control). Mexico thinks we are the reason they have so many illegally obtained guns and that by having similar laws there problem would be fixed. Really only around 10% of the illegal guns in mexico are from the U.S., and even if they did all come from the U.S. having similar gun laws would not stop the problem. The criminals would figure out another way to obtain the weapons and then it would be the U.S. and Mexico in the same …show more content…
They will get the gun illegally and try to do what they were planning. Gun control may slow down the perpetrator but it will also cause the target to be unarmed making him a sitting duck. If there was no gun control the target could protect himself and others to the best of his ability and odds are more lives would be saved without gun control then with. There are thousands of different examples were a good guy with a gun stopped a bad guy with a gun. One example is when Mr. Meli pulled out his concealed weapon when an armed gunman was shooting in a mall. All he had to do was point the gun at the man and he the gunman took his own life. This stopped the rampage and saved countless lives. Its interesting how we only hear about the bad things such as terrorist attacks or shootings and never how someone saved the day by stopping the