The Importance Of Gun Control

Imagine being held up at gunpoint in the middle of the night. This is by far one of the most terrifying experiences any human being can experience. At that point, your life is within another human beings hands, and your life hangs in the balance of whether he or she pulls the trigger or not. No one should ever have to worry about enjoying their evening with the possibility of a mentally unstable individual attempting to take their own life away. This is why gun control is a crucial debate within our society. Today, my colleagues and I will inform you on the importance of gun control, historical events that further increase the need for gun control, and ways California has already taken steps to further increase safety for our society.

There are an abundance of causes and effects in the way guns are used, purchased, and sold – legally or illegally. A few causes include how guns are kept (with a safety and locked away or not), and in the way guns are obtained. The effects of these acts are, peoples state of mind, and the criticisms law enforcement may receive. Thought of as technical and firm, the laws about guns can easily be bypassed by criminals and people who are not in the right frame of mind.

Nicholas Kristof’s article, “Our Blind Spot About Guns,” argues that guns should be regulated just like cars are. In which he focuses that the problem is that there are many handguns with no regulations which it makes individuals unsafe. And overall, I agree with Kristof’s argument because guns should go through the same regulations we go for our cars. Also, because guns aren’t like cars that are visible, and making guns safer “smart guns.”

If someone can’t pass the test to buy a weapon legally through an approved gun dealer, they will most likely resort to something like the black market where guns are unregistered and untraceable or a gun show where you can buy from just a vendor. When products are sold on the black market there is no regulation or background checks to determine who you are selling to. This is where people resort to buy items like drugs, firearms, bombs, or anything you could imagine. There is no way to stop the demand of firearms in this market because no one is regulating it with laws. With that said, gun control laws only affect people who follow the laws to begin with. Looking back at the example of the black market, most people who buy products there are criminals or are suspect. Why would you choose to buy things on the black market that you can buy in a normal store? The clear answer is because if you buy a gun in store and go kill someone with it, they can trace it back to you. Again, with the black market, there are no gun licenses issued, no registration to the person who bought it, and in most cases no serial

Watchel said that another way of obtaining an illegal gun is from unlicensed street dealers or black markets. Most illegal dealers get their guns from gun thefts or straw purchases. Like marijuana and other illegal drugs, it’s very easy to obtain and buy illegal guns. Set Chicago as an example, the city has very strict gun laws, but it was still crowned the murder capital of the US. The city has no gun stores, but most people are getting their guns from outside the city. Imagine if the US has gun control laws that prohibited millions of Americans from owning guns, its neighboring countries would supply them illegal guns, just like they did with Marijuana and other illegal drugs. According to Edward Dolan, author of Gun Control: a Decision for Americans, a gun control act was passed in 1968 that prohibited the imports of cheap guns from abroad. Dolan said that the law seems to be working at first, but later, the number of imported guns went back to where it was before. Another indication that the gun control didn’t work is that, the homicide rate quickly rose up to 300 % after the 1968 law was passed. Basically, gun control made matters worse in the past, and it will in the future, if the government continues to propose it. No law would have the ability to contain guns or hide their existence. The truth is that, people will always find ways to get their hands on a gun if they really wanted to. Criminals

The more people who own guns the more likely the violence is to occur. If we keep restricting guns as a country, people will find a way to still get firearms. The strict laws will only cause more criminals to be aroused to fight back. Criminals are only know for one thing and that is breaking the law. We also have all these children seeing violence and cruelty through social media or even national television.

Of course, as more people started owning guns, the crime rate and deaths by gun shot up. Basically, it used to be every man for himself. As the government started worrying farther than just setting the rules but actually having people abide by the rules, laws and restrictions were set to try to regulate who owned guns and why they would use them. In 1934, Congress first started regulating the sale of automatic firearms. Not until four years later did the government think to make it federal law to require gun sellers to be licensed and to prohibit felons from purchasing them (Newsbatch 1). Even with rules that shops were supposed to follow, there are loopholes. The problem with some people in the U.S. is they will go buy guns because they have no criminal record, and then sell it to someone who is willing to pay them for the gun. Different laws over the years, still standing and also withdrawn, have spelled out different ideas of regulations, “The Gun Control Act of 1968 regulated imported guns, expanded gun-dealer licensing requirements, and expanded the list of persons not eligible to buy guns to include person convicted of any non-business related felony, minors, persons found to be mentally incompetent, and users of illegal drugs,” (Newsbatch 1). Gun control and laws has not always been the top of Congress’s priority list, but some heads of state have at least tried to decrease the crime numbers. President Reagan wanted to put a five-day waiting period

Making laws to get rid of guns will not stop violence. “The only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”(Lapierre 2016). This is stating that outlawing guns will only take the gun away from good law-abiding citizens, while the people who break the law and use guns for bad reasons will not follow the law and continue to have guns. Therefore by outlawing guns, more violence would begin to happen, because the good

The supply and demand for illegal guns would greatly increase if gun control was implemented. Black markets would flood with loads of more powerful and illegal weapons. This increase of money flow through black market would fund other terrorist and criminal organizations increasing their power and benefiting them. In increase of profit of illegal dealers would hurt the gun manufacturers in the US. The production of ammo and guns is a 13 billion dollar industry. (The Economics..., Global Risk Insights) This business is taken from the safe, legal gun dealers. Most black market weapons are sold through the dark web anonymously and millions of dollars are made though this illegal market. Making weapons harder to get would increase the profits of theses sites exponentially.

Imaging this, in a Hollywood movie, a policeman is holding a pistol to against criminals. A gunfight is about to happen, offenders also hold firearms with them, who are sometimes even more well-equipped than the policemen. In real life, most criminals rob banks, kidnapping and commit a crime with arms. Policemen use guns for protecting, but criminals, who are surely comes from the public, use them to show their power. Back to many years ago, due to the ambiguity of amendment, the law, in the US, gives the right for American citizens to own guns. There is no doubt that a pistol helps an officer against those crimes, while whether citizens should be allowed to have the right to carry guns not, is worth to be discussed.

People have the right to live their lives the way they choose. It doesn’t make sense to take away people’s rights and there are consequences if someone does so.

It seems that every time someone comes home from a long day of work, sits down to watch the news and they have another story about gun related attack or home invasion. For some makes people believe that they're glad they own a gun in their house, incase someone chooses to attempt to rob their home. But the debate still rages on when it comes to gun control, one side arguing that we should arm all American citizen, while the other side arguing back that we need to remove all the guns in the country. Let's take a look at a article written by Alex Seitz-Wald, a correspondent for the National Journal where he debates that arming more civilians with guns would not reduce the crime rate. In order to do that, the reader needs to be about able to point out the author’s angle of vision by taking a look of the author’s background, identify the author’s claim, reasons, and warranty, and to analyze the author’s strengths and weaknesses in the way the author uses his article’s rhetoric. Before finding the evidence in the article I would theorize that this author has liberal beliefs.

The second amendment goes like this, 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. This amendment means that American citizens have the right to have and use guns and other weapons as long as there being used respectively. The purpose of my speech today is to tell you why the government should not increase gun control laws. First of all, guns aren’t the real killer and taking guns away would take away an option for self protection. A criminal is defined as someone who has committed a crime. A gun is defined as a something that uses bullets and makes loud noises. Although the gun is being used to commit the crime it can’t pull its own trigger. Guns don't kill people; people kill people. The fact is that criminals break the laws, even though they exist. A stone-cold criminal won’t suddenly change just because there are new laws about what they're doing wrong. According to The Great Gun Control Fallacy, Australia has issued a gun ban which didn’t turn out too well. It resulted in the armed robberies going up 69%, assaults with guns going up 28%, gun murders going up 19%, and home invasions going up 21%. Thomas Sowell said that, “While gun ownership doubled in the twentieth century, the murder rate decreased.” People tend to feel more protected if they own a gun. Statistics from the Pew Research Center show that guns are, on average, used for self defense 2.5 million times a year.

Do guns protect us or cause more harm? This has been a question and argument going on for years. No one can still determine the right answer since it’s so opinionated and great views from both sides. Gun control is the when the short and monitor the gun supply for the public. There should be gun control because it will help keep everyone safe.

One of the main topics that has been sweeping the nation has to do with the Second Amendment to the Constitution, the right to bear arms. Due to the most recent shooting in Las Vegas, many American citizens have been switching their views towards strengthening the gun control laws. Gun control laws need to be strengthened in order to strengthen the overall protection from misuse of guns within the nation.