SHOULD GUN CONTROL LAWS BE MORE STRICT?
Should Gun Control Laws Be More Strict? Many individuals do not believe that carrying a gun will make them safer; On the contrary many of them carry both openly and concealed and society is better for it. One could ask why society would be better for it? There are many answers someone could provide, but one of the most logical ones would be "If they did somehow manage to take away legal weapons? That would still leave criminals happily armed" (Burrus,2015). That is a scary thing to think about when you are in a dangerous situation, or if someone else was in a dangerous situation and could not be helped because of the gun control law. One could say that guns kill people, or argue that people kill people; People get stabbed,but you do not see the goverment banning knives. Many people believe that stricter gun control laws …show more content…
That is a scary thought because what happens when we as people are not allowed to conceal a firearm anymore? That is giving the criminals more power than they already have by not letting the average person defend themselves."Very few members of gangs walk our streets minus a gun. From renegade motorcycle gangs to inner city street gangs to international cartel gang members, every one of them is strapped. We don 't need footnoted statistics to know the truth of that"(Geer,2014). One would want to have a weapon just incase the oppertuinty arose and having stricter gun laws might make the person very cautious when going out. So now one can see that having stricter gun control laws would not make crime better ,but ultimately make it
Should Gun Control Laws Be More Strict? Many individuals do not believe that carrying a gun will make them safer; On the contrary many of them carry both openly and concealed and society is better for it. One could ask why society would be better for it? There are many answers someone could provide, but one of the most logical ones would be "If they did somehow manage to take away legal weapons? That would still leave criminals happily armed" (Burrus,2015). That is a scary thing to think about when you are in a dangerous situation, or if someone else was in a dangerous situation and could not be helped because of the gun control law. One could say that guns kill people, or argue that people kill people; People get stabbed,but you do not see the goverment banning knives. Many people believe that stricter gun control laws …show more content…
That is a scary thought because what happens when we as people are not allowed to conceal a firearm anymore? That is giving the criminals more power than they already have by not letting the average person defend themselves."Very few members of gangs walk our streets minus a gun. From renegade motorcycle gangs to inner city street gangs to international cartel gang members, every one of them is strapped. We don 't need footnoted statistics to know the truth of that"(Geer,2014). One would want to have a weapon just incase the oppertuinty arose and having stricter gun laws might make the person very cautious when going out. So now one can see that having stricter gun control laws would not make crime better ,but ultimately make it