Guns are known to be the cause for most vicious crimes, but this is certainly inaccurate. In fact, “the total number of privately owned firearms has risen by over 130 million [owners],” causing the nations violent crime to decrease by 49 percent and the murder rate to drop by 52percent (“A Ban on Assault Weapons” 1). Moreover, studies have alluded that there have been “nine times as many murders with knives, blunt objects, and [physical] weapons,” than there have been of guns (“A Ban on Assault Weapons” 2). The media portrays guns to be the most violent weapon, but statistics have proven this otherwise. Furthermore,
