Argumentative Essay: Does Gun Control Really Work?

Gun control is a very controversial topic that has has a huge impact on the United States of America. One side believes that if guns were taken away as a whole, the country would see significantly less gun related crimes and death, while the other opposing side thinks that taking away guns is not only against the Second Amendment but would lead to an increase in crime and death because the government would take guns away from people who are legally registered to own and conceal guns. The ongoing debate will continue until the foreseeable future but their are plenty of reasons why more gun laws should be made. Taking away guns is not the answer, learning how to deal with gun violence is the key.

The first argument of people in favor of gun control is, of course, If people don’t have guns, they can’t kill people (or as many people). This makes sense because most mass mass killings and murders are a result of a person with bad intent gaining possession of a gun. However, would a stricter gun policy really help? People against gun control think not. There are various subjective arguments but the facts are simple, the correlation between accessibility of guns and crime with guns, if any, is that the less accessible the guns are the higher the gun violence is. This is made very clear with studies from other countries who have very strict gun control policies. Which only brings us back to the idea that guns are just neutral objects and can only be controlled by the person in possession of the weapon.

Sandy Hook Elementary. Aurora, Colorado. San Bernardino, California. Las Vegas, Nevada. Orlando, Florida. (Words with Negative Connotation) These are just some of the biggest mass shootings that have swept America in the past few years. Hundreds of lives are lost each year to gun related violence in the United States alone. Gun control has been a topic in our country since our founding fathers adopted the second amendment to the US constitution. Although recently controversy has sparked to an all-new extent in America due to the recent spike in mass shootings and gun related homicides. So many families and loves ones are affected each year in the United States because of gun related violence and other mass killing events, because of these events gun control laws need to be revamped and strengthened in American in order to protect the citizens.

I believe that gun control works in theory, but not in real life. Sure, there are many violent crimes where guns are used, but most of these guns are obtained illegally, because the gun control laws enforced are not enough.

Even if it could be proven gun control does prevent violent crime from occuring, enforcing sweeping gun control legislation in the United States would be virtually impossible. There are about 270 million guns in American, ad in 29 states, at least one-third of the households own guns.

The United States has 270 million guns, the most in the world; consequently, this raises the question of gun control and the Second Amendment.( Should More Gun Control Be Enacted ). The Second Amendment preserves the right to individual gun ownership, banning the ownership of assault weapons would be unconstitutional. Most criminals who obtain guns do so illegally, thus putting a censorship on gun ownership would not prevent them from getting firearms. Gun control does not deter crime, the criminals that commit these crimes have no respect for the law. Citizens have the right to assault weapons because the Second Amendment safeguards individual gun ownership, banning the ownership of guns would not stop criminals from getting them illegally,

People are dying all over the world because of mass shootings and shootings in general people are starting to push for harder gun control in hopes it will help, I wonder if it will help us or hurt us more. I personally do not believe in gun control, and think it will not achieve much of anything. Some people believe that gun control will slow down or stop mass shootings or shootings in general, but I believe that it will do nothing. If people want to kill people they will use any means necessary they won’t use just guns.

All too often we are seeing headlines detailing the most recent mass shooting. It's a disturbing trend, and sadly, it seems to be on the rise. It seems lately, there is no public place that is safe. This needs to change. A change in gun laws would help stop these incidents from happening. A change needs to take place, to make the violence stop.

Tragically, our country has suffered many shootings that killed innocent lives from terrorists. A recent case was San Bernardino in California. Many government powers have attempted to lessen these horrific events with gun control legislation, but fail to realize that having weapons is not the issue. It is the people who carry them.

According to the U.S. Department of Justice, gun control has been working. In 1993 approximately eighteen thousand people had died in America only from gun violence. Ever

Almost 2.5 million people are robbed every year. Although that number is slowly decreasing, that number will guaranteed go up if the people are denied guns. Think on it, an armed robber breaks into your child's room. Do you sit in your room and

“Hey Jack, wake up!” “Ugh, is it time to wake up already?” Jack and Alex live together in Alex’s Mom’s house, Sheila. “I made you boys breakfast,” Sheila exclaimed to the boys. “Thank you,” said both the boys. After breakfast Alex and Jack went on a walk in the woods, it was raining out so they had their jackets on. “So I have it all planned out, if we do it Friday afternoon we will have the best chances of being successful,” Alex was telling Jack. “Did you get the guns?” Alex, knowing, that it is much easier to get a gun illegally rather than legally buying a gun Alex just went to a drug dealer to buy a gun for Jack and him. See criminals don’t follow the law, strict gun laws only hurt law abiding citizens. On their way back to Sheila’s they plan out a bank robbery.

I think they should keep gun control because gun control you will be able to protect yourself and your family. If someone robs your house and they have a gun you will be able to protect yourself instead of hide and hope you don’t get found and possibly killed or hurt you have more of a chance of getting hurt if you can’t have conceal and carry or a firearm in your house hold but you should have to take a safety class and have a good background with no felonies or weapon charges and you should only be allowed to walk around with a hand gun in a holster but when it comes to being at home you should be able to have bigger firearms such as shotguns, ar, and 22’s but no full auto guns. People now a day can’t protect their selves from harm and hope

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Gun is a very danger weapon. You only can saw the gun be used in war before but now you can find it in a moderately family. Guns become very cheap and easily to buy. In part of the country, civilian have guns are legal. I think Guns should be control because more gun control laws would reduce gun deaths, guns are rarely used in self-defense and legally owned guns are frequently stolen and used by criminals.