Why Legalization of Guns is a Mistake
“Guns don’t kill people, people kill people” is probably one of the dumbest quotes I have ever heard in my life. For those of you who disagree with me. Imagine this, you are in a room by yourself with a psychopath who is armed with a gun, and then imagine you are in the same room with a normal, mentally sane person with a gun, both would be scary but which situation would you feel safer in? Well to be honest, neither. At any moment, both the psychopath and the normal being could fire one bullet and end your life forever. NOW, do you think its people who kill people, or guns that kill people…? No matter what situation, a gun’s job is to kill, and it is has never changed and has always been that way. Guns can’t choose its targets, the power of the gun is that it has the capability to kill.
As you may have already guessed, my topic is about guns…and why they should be banned in the US. This, for me seems like a topic that shouldn’t even be bothered to be discussed. The statistics say it all:
According to the Washington Post: The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world: 89 guns for every / 100 Americans. Multiply that by the number of Americans and that gives us 280, 488, 411 legally held guns (two hundred eighty million, four hundred eighty eight thousand, four hundred eleven guns). As you can see, there is very little gun control in the US, almost anybody can legally buy a gun, although there are thousands of illegal guns in circulation plus illegally stolen legal guns. With that, the total deaths through use of guns in 2011 were 9484. And 8 583 of guns deaths were murders.
From a study in July of 2012 done by the magazine Mother Jones, ¾ of the fire arms used by the killer in mass murders since 1982 were held legally. Here are some of them:
San Ysidro McDonalds Massacre, 1984, 41 Victims,
Sockton Schoolyard Shooting, 1989 35 Victims
Royal Post Shooting 1991,10 Victims, weapon legally purchased @ a local gun store
Virginia Tech 2007,
As you may have already guessed, my topic is about guns…and why they should be banned in the US. This, for me seems like a topic that shouldn’t even be bothered to be discussed. The statistics say it all:
According to the Washington Post: The United States has the highest gun ownership rate in the world: 89 guns for every / 100 Americans. Multiply that by the number of Americans and that gives us 280, 488, 411 legally held guns (two hundred eighty million, four hundred eighty eight thousand, four hundred eleven guns). As you can see, there is very little gun control in the US, almost anybody can legally buy a gun, although there are thousands of illegal guns in circulation plus illegally stolen legal guns. With that, the total deaths through use of guns in 2011 were 9484. And 8 583 of guns deaths were murders.
From a study in July of 2012 done by the magazine Mother Jones, ¾ of the fire arms used by the killer in mass murders since 1982 were held legally. Here are some of them:
San Ysidro McDonalds Massacre, 1984, 41 Victims,
Sockton Schoolyard Shooting, 1989 35 Victims
Royal Post Shooting 1991,10 Victims, weapon legally purchased @ a local gun store
Virginia Tech 2007,