It is shown that over the course of one year about 2.5 million people use guns to protect themselves from criminals (Gun Facts). The rate for intended use of guns in a defensive purpose is tremendously higher, it’s almost 6 times higher. That means that more people are using guns to help defend themselves rather than using them to harm one another. Another gun myth is that you are more likely to killed if you use guns for self defense. Let this process in you brain for one second. We use guns for self defense and all the indicators point towards having guns help us rather than harm us, but we make conclusions like that before we can rule out that guns make us violent. If we are faced with similar circumstances in our future where we are faced with a situation. We are in conflict with an armed individual how do we increase our chance to get killed. If anything we increase or chances of survival because like I said we once again feel that sense of safety when there are guns or local authority figures are around. We have to look at it in this perspective and this maybe my conservative ideals coming out, but if we outlaw the use of guns the majority of Americans will follow the law. The law should be followed however there are always those who deviate from the mean. Outlaws and criminals will find ways to get guns, and if we the American people will …show more content…
These are unalienable rights, and we need to be safe to fulfill those rights. Our nation was set on a set of ideals, and those ideals should never be taken away. The Second Amendment of the United States, the right to bear arms, is one of the most controversial topics in modern history, and yet it should never be brought to question. When we consider the facts that guns are used in defensive purpose in rates significantly higher than they are used in aggressive assault purposes. We simply can not control who can buy guns. However, we can control our rights, and the right to bear arms should never be taken away. Laws on guns should only be passed for storage and handling of guns, not on whether they should be possessed or not. We as the American people need to focus on what truly matters to us and our family, and that is we need a sense of safety. Let 's face out without guns and with law enforcements help a long ways away we need guns to protect ourselves, and without we are asking to be injured or killed by an