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The Importance Of Gun Control

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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.

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