Gun Control

Gun Control What does gun control really mean? Gun laws in the United States regulate the sale, possession, and use of firearms and ammunition. A lot of people have been arguing whether gun control is good or bad for our country. I am against gun control because if a robber were to break into my house with a gun in their hand, what would I do? Call the police? If I call the police, the burglar would have already shot me by the time I reached the phone. Sure, it would be a perfect world if only the good people protecting our country to have guns, but of course that won’t happen. Criminals never obey laws and will always find a place that has guns. We can protect ourselves from them if we are not under gun control. Therefore, I am against gun control because there is no way you can control people from obtaining guns, they will always find a way to get what they want. A person for gun control might say that violence will decrease with the gun control law enforced. Gun violence in America is off the chart compared with every other country on the planet. “The gun-homicide rate per capita in the U.S. is 30 times that of Britain and Australia, 10 times that of India and four times that of Switzerland.” Yes that is true, but do you think that gun control laws will really stop people from obtaining guns? The main problem with the gun-control laws is that they don’t work. “Florida State University criminology professor Gary Kleck, a political liberal and one-time supporter of gun-control laws, has been studying guns and their effect on violence and crime since 1976. What he’s found is that gun-control laws have no net effect on violence or crime rates, because the benefits of widespread gun ownership cancels out the costs.” Another reason that people who are for gun control is that guns should only be put into the hands of the military or licensed people which will decrease violence. With protections of the military and officers, there will be fewer deaths. Franklin D.