How To Prevent Gun Violence Persuasive Essay

Keep or Delete Imagine that somebody broke into your home. The number one thing you’ll look for is a knife, but the knife will get you killed if the burglar has a high class type of weaponry, most likely a gun. Now imagine the same scenario, but this time you had a gun. Luckily you shout to the burglar that you have a gun and you fire a blank. This time you scare away the burglar and nothing like that ever happens. You see, gun control should not be limited since gun violence has greatly decreased, without guns we’ll be left vulnerable, and no matter the weapon, the Constitution allows any type of “arm”. If you think about it, gun violence has decreased because back in the day, having a gun made you popular but now other things can make you popular. For example, making up a simple dance that’s different from other ones can make you popular, or just by the way you dress can make you highly famous. Jacob Davidson states, “...we’ve have had a remarkable decrease in violent and gun crime in the U.S. since the early 1900s.” (Davidson 2015) Honestly most people, young people, don’t even think about joining anything that involves violence or crime. Us young …show more content…
Without guns we’ll be left highly vulnerable to our enemies. It doesn’t take a scientist to know that there are wars going on. We have soldiers that are on land and they use guns to protect themselves so without guns we’ll be losing lots more men than we are now. According to Jacob Davidson of The Time (2015), “...we would not be a safe society, eliminating assault weapons. People could substitute the non-assault weapons that are exactly the same.” He also states that, “Assault weapons are not more powerful, they don’t shoot more bullets, and they do not shoot faster.” Most people would agree that taking away guns would cause more death on the battlefield than on the streets. It would also cause more chaos and grief with families and the U.S.