Essay On Gun Control

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People are dying. Most liberals blame guns for these deaths but it is common sense that guns cannot kill by themselves. They need an evil person to use them. You cannot blame guns for these deaths. When police respond to threats of shooters the police bring guns with them, why? So they can neutralize the threat. Now in a recent mass shooting, Orlando, police took over three hours to get inside the nightclub and kill Omar Mateen. If an experienced gun owner had been carrying a gun inside of the nightclub he could have stopped the shooter but instead 50 people died before the shooter was stopped. People are dying but gun control laws are not going to stop that but make this happen more frequently instead. Gun control is a term used to describe the regulation of firearms from citizens. Some people believe that by controlling the amount of firearms and assault weapons in civilians hands it will result in less gun related homicides. Others think that gun control will not stop deaths from guns but give criminals more power, by making them the only ones with guns. In 1787 our forefathers drafted a set of undeniable rights to life, liberty, and property. One of these rights written in the Constitution of our country was the right to bear arms without infringement. Recently due to mass shootings and deaths, the government is trying to regulate gun laws and take away a lot of gun rights from law abiding citizens. There are many different ways that the government is proposing to hinder our rights. Some propose taking away the ability to conceal carry, others think you should go through extensive background checks and have a specific reason to carry guns. Others take things to the farthest side of the argument by saying that we should ban guns completely and stop making them so there is no more supply. Other people believe that gun control is an infringement of our constitutional rights given in the second amendment. Some of the points that the people against gun control bring up are good arguments. Some say that most mass shootings take place in gun free zones; movie theater, nightclub, school, mall, and church. This often happens because they are easy targets. This brings up another point that the only thing that can stop a bad buy with a gun is a good buy with a gun. Some people for gun control say that there are too many deaths by homicides but more than half of the deaths by guns are suicides. Suicide deaths are bad but if people chose to die they can find many ways to do it. It would be impossible to ban all guns without people making them illegally with 3-d printers or obtaining them on the black market. If we were to ban all guns …show more content…
Sure, they are not mass shootings but over 20 people die by guns in Chicago per day. Most people who are for gun control are mainly after assault weapons because of mass shootings instead of standard handguns.

People argue that gun control works in places like Australia but crime in Australia has also skyrocketed. In other places where there is very strict gun control like China there is still a lot of crime, including mass murders. In fact, one chinese man used a knife to stab over twenty children. But this isn’t the first time that a Chinese man has attack children with a knife, this has actually happened over three more times.

Liberals sometimes forget that guns can be used for good too. Just a few days ago in Alabama a pregnant woman shot a would be intruder, she also said “ I thank God that I had protection 'cause if I didn 't, you never know what could have happened.” This helps to prove my point that guns can be used horribly in the wrong hands but they can also be used to keep people safe. Like she said, if she didn’t have a gun she could have robbed, or even raped or murdered. This isn’t a rare circumstance either, according to gun owners.org guns are used 6850 times per day in an act of protection. They go on to say that this is 80 times more than they are used to

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