Guns In The 20th Century

Introduction
Handguns have played a huge part in shaping America mainly in the 20th century, also before this time period. My opinion is that they have played a much more negative roll than a positive one. This topic is a very difficult subject to speak on because so many people have different thoughts on it. Handguns, I would say they are in a way an epidemic, as I will present later. Guns kill many people over the course of a year in America let alone in the entire world. Handguns grew rapidly due to many reasons resulting in how we use handguns and firearms today. Handguns were the first “machines” a human could hold that would launch a bullet at the pull of a trigger. They date back to the 13th century A.D. after China invented black powder and from there everyone needed it. Ever since then violence has increased, all over the world. This has started a world-wide conflict, on a political level and …show more content…
To settle a dispute between two rival gangs they would fist fight, or use pipes and “non-lethal” weapons. This event sometimes, not all the time would likely end up with just a few members injured. Of the many gangs there are the Bloods and the Crips, who took violence to a new level using handguns. It’s not just gangs that fall into this category. There is the KKK, Black Panthers, Anti-Muslim, Chains of Rap Brown and the Skin Heads. Those are just a few out of the many. Even though hate groups did not do as much killing like other gangs, it eventually went to the extent of doing the same. With the hate groups and gangs killing each other it didn’t hit its peak until handguns and guns were being manufactured for the Vietnam War. With this, all gun companies were making a very large amount of guns to where they could be sold to the government and the public. With this came people in gangs and other organizations buying them, so obviously this lead to more violence and