Drugs are illegal, yet criminals still find their way to abuse drugs. Therefore, making guns illegal will not stop criminals from being able to get guns. Gun control laws infringe upon the right to self-defense and deny people a sense of safety. Stricter gun laws would make it more difficult for people to protect their homes and families. Gun control laws, like laws to try to ban assault rifles, go against the right to own guns for hunting and sport. Crimes will never stop; guns do not cause crimes; people cause them. If citizens do not have anything to protect themselves, criminals will just kill them. Gun control will not stop anything because criminals will not obey the law, guns do not kill people, and it will just take guns out of good …show more content…
According to a 2004 study by Linda Dahlberg, just having a firearm in a home increases the risk of a homicide or a suicide to occur. That risk remains no matter how many guns are owned or how safely they are locked away in a gun safe (10 Advantages and Disadvantages of Gun Control 2). People living in a home with a firearm present face a risk of homicide that is forty times higher than people in a home without a firearm. The risk of a firearm-related suicide is 90 times higher when a gun is present in a home. Making guns illegal or taking away guns won’t do anything but increase more crime and more deaths because people won’t have a way to defend themselves. Gun control laws would actively break the terms of the right to self-defense and it would also deny people a sense of safety. According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), guns are used for self-defense two point five million times a year, the police cannot protect everyone all of the time. Fifty one percent of men and fifty six percent of women surveyed by Pew Research said that stricter gun laws would ‘make it more difficult for people to protect their homes and families’ (ProCon.org 3). When people own guns it gives them a sense of safety because they can protect themselves with said