Essay Against Gun Control

Guns do not kill people. People kill people.There are a lot of reasons that gun control is not the answer. I am strongly against gun control, because I think that if we go through with these laws it will not help. I think it will increase the deaths by guns, and I do not want people to die, that is why I am against it. There are reasons that it will not work, like it’s impossible to get rid of the supply of guns we have because it is too large. There are disadvantages like people won’t have the right to self-defense, and guns stop more crimes than they cause. Also, the number of murders by gun has significantly decreased in the past twenty years, so why are we all of a sudden trying to pass these gun control laws. These are just a few reasons why I think that gun control is not the answer to the problem with the murders. First, there are many reasons that the gun control law will not work. “There is no possible way to extinguish the huge supply of guns in the United States alone.” ”6” There is just too many guns. “If a nationwide gun confiscation program was attempted, they would have to confiscate over 350 million firearms.” ”1” There would be a lot of guns that would not …show more content…
It will just cause even more crimes. We will never be able to get rid of the gun supply in the United States, it would break the second, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments. The people who made the amendments were people who helped create this country. They would not make a amendment that would hurt the very thing that they created. And the number of murders has gone down in the past years, so why would we want to think about gun control now. We should have thought about in the last 25 years, because it was much worse than, then it is now, but now gun control is not needed. The United States would benefit more if we did not have these laws, then if we do have these laws. These are the reasons that I am strongly against gun