Argumentative Essay: Do We Need Gun Control?

Many shootings have been on the news either on social media, TV or the newspaper. Well these shooting happen for a reason. Either guns were not taken by the safety precautions to protect them, or no one else there had a firearm to protect innocent civilians. Some people use guns inappropriately but that shouldn't stop the rest of us from practicing are constitutional right for good reasons. This is America People! Gun rights are a constitutional amendment and as such should not be taken away from us. Although many people believe gun control will stop deaths and murders its actually worse when there are stricter laws. “Last year 500 people were shot and killed in the city of Chicago and police only had enough man power to investigate 55 of those deaths. According to police statistics, 2016 shootings and murders have increased by 70 percent in the first 5 months of the year” (The British Banned Guns On Our Founding Fathers &Amp; It Brought About A Revolution). The gun control in Chicago just plainly hasn’t done anything to the murder rates. Chicago has some some of the strictest
“Many handguns are semiautomatic too. Military-style rifles fire only one round for each pull of the trigger, just like a revolver, a shotgun, a hunting rifle or any other of the 300 million guns in America.” Just because it’s an assault rifle or military style looking doesn’t mean its automatic. Many people just think that there was more dangerous than any other gun which can be true in some cases but every gun has its own advantages. “The only unique thing about assault looking rifles is there menacing name and look and it is these elements that make them such an appealing-if not particularly sensible-target of gun control advocates.” Yes, they look really cool and G.I. Joe looking but doesn’t mean that there all that special. They only shoot one round like the gun next to it in the shop, when you pull the