Benefits Of Gun Control Laws

Thomas Jefferson one of our founding fathers once said that “Laws that forbid the carrying of arms only disarm those who are neither inclined or determined to commit crimes”. Gun control laws have been around since the 1800’s ,with the fist law coming into play in 1870.That first law about firearms stated that you would need a license if you wished to carry your firearms outside of your own home and property. Then in the 1900’s a law passed to help insure the safety of other. That law passed in 1903 and it stated that firearms could not be sold to the drunken or the mentally insane and unstable. Evidence has proven that more gun control laws would not be beneficial to the public and would not help reduce the amount of violent crimes being committed with guns.
Writer Christine Watkins, at htt://ww.socialstudies.org claimed that “there are already some 20,000 gun laws in the United States, and that, as more laws pass, more gun violence occurs. “With the significant increase I gun control laws passed by President Obama in the past years, along come a rise in the percentage of gun violence where more gun control laws have been put into action. Stronger gun control laws will make it more difficult for the citizen to protect themselves and their families if a criminal appears. The police aren’t around all the time and might not be able to make it on time or help the situation at