Argumentative Essay: Should Gun Control Be Extended?
Should gun control be extended?
So, I believe that Americans should be able to own guns and not have their 2nd amendment infringed upon because the 2nd amendment says “ The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This implies that the people of the U.S can have weapons to defend themselves and no further. Now obviously there is flaws to this as there is criminals that use weapons for horrible acts, but we have people that own guns to protect themselves from the criminals in which case a weapon is used in self defence and not to commit an act of crime. As well as people who use them to protect themselves it is also not meant to kill the gun for example is something that doesn’t kill the user of the …show more content…
And with that law or stricter added you wouldn’t be infringing their right to own a weapon but you would be lowering the chance of them using it as a weapon used for killing it is that simple. Now of course there is a couple of things to the counterpoint of my argument and that would be that guns would still be obtainable by people who don’t have a criminal record and are selling weapons illegally. But of course I have a counter argument and that would be that we could also make gun sales illegal to the public if you do not have said permit to own one.
Now another thing is that the gun control could possibly be abused in the words of people who say oh we won this time and they might want to make firearms illegal to own and to sell from everyone. And that would be a bad thing that can easily happen if we did allow people to take away our weapons. And as of current situation we still have control of guns and there hasn’t been much fighting against it but it all could change in the matter of a couple days and we could be having positions to infringe the 2nd amendment but that is one of the only things that people
So, I believe that Americans should be able to own guns and not have their 2nd amendment infringed upon because the 2nd amendment says “ The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” This implies that the people of the U.S can have weapons to defend themselves and no further. Now obviously there is flaws to this as there is criminals that use weapons for horrible acts, but we have people that own guns to protect themselves from the criminals in which case a weapon is used in self defence and not to commit an act of crime. As well as people who use them to protect themselves it is also not meant to kill the gun for example is something that doesn’t kill the user of the …show more content…
And with that law or stricter added you wouldn’t be infringing their right to own a weapon but you would be lowering the chance of them using it as a weapon used for killing it is that simple. Now of course there is a couple of things to the counterpoint of my argument and that would be that guns would still be obtainable by people who don’t have a criminal record and are selling weapons illegally. But of course I have a counter argument and that would be that we could also make gun sales illegal to the public if you do not have said permit to own one.
Now another thing is that the gun control could possibly be abused in the words of people who say oh we won this time and they might want to make firearms illegal to own and to sell from everyone. And that would be a bad thing that can easily happen if we did allow people to take away our weapons. And as of current situation we still have control of guns and there hasn’t been much fighting against it but it all could change in the matter of a couple days and we could be having positions to infringe the 2nd amendment but that is one of the only things that people