Gun control is a debate that occurs in many countries around
the world, and is one of the biggest issues being dealt with in the United
States. My government recently watched a movie called Bowling for Columbine. In this movie, Michael Moore focused on the
pros and the cons of living in a pro-gun society and leaves his audience
questioning their opinion on gun control issues.
In 2013, there were 14,827 murders in the United this is
higher than any other country in the world. But what causes this high number of
deaths in the United States? Many would like to blame our loose gun laws. I do
not believe that this is the cause, how many criminals that shoot people
acquire their guns legally? Many don’t, so how are making stricter gun laws
going to stop this? It’s not! Criminals are criminals they break the law if
they want a gun they will find a way to get it whether it is against the law or
not. So don’t pass gun control laws punishing the people who don’t kill people.
The second amendment was passed in 1791 and states the
following: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”(
See more on the second amendment at: http://constitution.findlaw.com/amendment2.html#sthash.FjWrxQNq.dpuf)
many people see this as everyone has the right to own and bear arms no matter
what, but is that how it was meant to be interrupted? I think at the time that
the founding fathers meant that everyone has the right to own guns. Why? I
think they knew that if the government was not regulated that it could get out
of control and try to control everything. They knew that if this were to happen
that the people would need guns to overthrow the government just as they did in
the revolution against Great Britain. Now back then the guns they had were not
very advanced and wouldn’t cause mass destruction like the weapons do today. I
think that if the writers of the constitution were to write it today with the
great advancement in weapons they would put regulations on weapons. I think
that any weapon that the government has access to should be accessed by the
public other than the weapons of mass destruction. Why? Because if the sole purpose of the second
amendment was to allow the people to be able to overthrow the government if it
gets out of control then we the people need to be able to put up a fight.
People say that we need stricter gun laws because murder
rate is higher and higher each year. This is not true. Murder rate has been
slowly declining every year since 1993 and continues to decline. The reason
that it seems like there are so much more murders is because of the media. The
reason that the media focuses so much on the violence is to scare people. Personally, I think that the government is
using the media to scare people into giving up their guns. The reason the
government would want that is so the people have no way of protecting
themselves if they want to take over.
Personally, I think that gun control is bull crap. People
look at guns as if the guns themselves are killing the people when in reality
the people are killing the people. The gun is just how they choose to kill the
person. If a person truly wanted to kill another person and they didn’t have a
gun they would find something else to use. The United States may have the
highest murder rate of any other country but not all of the murders in the
United States are because of guns. In fact, about 55% of all murders are gun
related. If only a little over half of the murders are gun related, then why
are the only murders that are reported in the news gun related? What about all
the other murders are they less important or is it just another way of making
the people afraid of guns?
I personally do not think that people need to be afraid of
guns. If anything they need to be afraid of the person that uses the guns to
cause harm to others. I think they need
to look deeper into a situation before jumping to the conclusion that it’s the guns
that kill people and that they are dangerous. It’s not the guns it’s the people
that are dangerous. The people that use the guns for things like hunting and aren’t
causing harm to others shouldn’t be punished because of a few people who do use
them wrongly.
Guns have been always been a part of the American culture
and are what gave and still gives this country the freedom we have today. Yes,
gun can be dangerous if they fall into the wrong hands and unfortunately have
been used to claim many innocent lives that didn’t need to be taken. Gun
control is necessary to a certain degree. I do not believe in the government
taking away out assault rifles or any other type of rifle. The only thing that
should be restricted are any type of explosives.