The continued existence of the United States of America involves guns. Guns have played a role in everything from the revolutionary war to the current war being fought in the Middle East. If the American colonists had been successfully disarmed, there would be no America. Guns safeguard the idea of freedom in America. Laws controlling the manufacturing, sale, and use of firearms should not be passed to ensure that Americans have the ability to defend themselves against individuals, Terrorism, and their own government if necessary.
Criminals have played a part in every society since the times of Mesopotamia. Supporters of gun control often say that complete or partial disarmament of the civilian population would reduce crime rates by keeping …show more content…
This means that approximately 34 percent of the population owns guns. These gun owners have made it clear that they will not surrender their guns willingly to anyone who attempts to confiscate them. Any gun control law would likely cause all these people to hide their guns rather than surrender them. Even though there are growing voices supporting gun control, the United States gun owning population is likely to expand in the next few years as new technologies emerge to make it cheaper and easier to obtain increasingly powerful guns. One of these technologies is the rapidly expanding field of 3D printing. Defense Distributed has successfully designed, printed, and fired the world’s first legal 3D printed firearm, The Liberator (“About DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED”). Regardless of these technologies, the most basic reason for Americans to fight for gun rights is found in Amendment II of the US Constitution which states “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(US Const. amend. II) .The gun will be an unstoppable force that will be a part of not only America, but the world, for the foreseeable
Criminals have played a part in every society since the times of Mesopotamia. Supporters of gun control often say that complete or partial disarmament of the civilian population would reduce crime rates by keeping …show more content…
This means that approximately 34 percent of the population owns guns. These gun owners have made it clear that they will not surrender their guns willingly to anyone who attempts to confiscate them. Any gun control law would likely cause all these people to hide their guns rather than surrender them. Even though there are growing voices supporting gun control, the United States gun owning population is likely to expand in the next few years as new technologies emerge to make it cheaper and easier to obtain increasingly powerful guns. One of these technologies is the rapidly expanding field of 3D printing. Defense Distributed has successfully designed, printed, and fired the world’s first legal 3D printed firearm, The Liberator (“About DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED”). Regardless of these technologies, the most basic reason for Americans to fight for gun rights is found in Amendment II of the US Constitution which states “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(US Const. amend. II) .The gun will be an unstoppable force that will be a part of not only America, but the world, for the foreseeable