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The Issue Of Gun Control

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Gun Control is a form of restriction of firearm and firearm related products away from the people in the form of legislation. Many think that gun control is an honorable cause because they think keeping people away from guns will reduce the amount of deaths instantly and over a period of time. Also whenever people hear the word gun, heads instantly race towards negativity and violence. Many people believe think gun control is wrong and that it is not necessary, since many know that guns were not involved in a decent amount of the deaths caused each year. Also that it is not the gun to blame but the person using it as a tool to inflict evil upon others. While many other people disagree and think it is good because of the safety for others. …show more content…

However, when a politically charged group presents rational arguments against capital punishment or demonstrate multiple instances where government has mistakenly executed innocents, such reasoning is often no match for society’s call for blood.
The same is true of gun-control advocates. As columnist Thomas Sowell has noted: “The key fallacy of so-called gun-control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. If gun-control zealots had any respect for facts, they would have discovered this long ago (Sowell).” If a government were to remove guns from a household, one can 't commit suicide or accidentally shoot themselves and so on. Now the conclusions that most will draw are, great, problem solved, but in reality, it 's not that easy. Removing gun deaths doesn 't answer the criminology question of did we reduce overall homicides and how did we impact other crimes such as burglary, arson, etc. You may curb one crime to cause more. You only hurt the law abiding citizens who wish no harm on anyone unless they’re life is threatened. Great example for a similar subject. We ban drinking to get rid of all the evils associated with alcohol, which we did, from 1920 to 1933. It actually did decrease the overall rates of alcoholism, but violent crimes went

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