Arguments Against Gun Control

A controversy that has arisen over the years is gun control, who has the right to have access to guns and how gun control and access tie into violent crimes. After a tragedy, politicians come together to debate gun control policies proposed in response to a shooting. Many people blamed the gun, not the person. Mental health is serious issue, because it leads to a negative public attitude toward person with serious mental illness. However, despite the claims of gun control activists, gun control does not reduce crime; it only leaves law abiding citizens increasingly vulnerable to violent crime, and need to use mental health screening before purchasing a gun/guns. Bunch of people believe Gun control does reduces crimes. In fact, in places with

Mental illness is one of the reasons why people did these mass shootings. In Virginia Tech, the shooter had mental illness, and yet the shooter bought a gun; then killed 32 students. Not only in Virginia Tech, but in Columbine, Sandy Hook, and Aurora shooters were all diagnosed with mental illness. The Federal Government need to come up with mental illness screenings to prevent these tragedies. Mental illness is serious issue, because it impacts a person's thinking, feeling, or mood. Mental illness can affect his or her mental ability to function on a daily basis. Anxieties about insanity and gun violence are also inspired with unspoken anxieties about race, politics, and the unequal distribution of violence in US society. Mental Illness screening would actually prevent most of the shootings, because psychiatrist can prevent an individual is a danger to self or others. In an article, Gonzales

Not having gun control would have more criminals walking around with guns and in just a few seconds, able to pull the trigger and kill an innocent man, woman, kid, or an elder. Gun control is good idea, because there should even be anyone having a gun except for the police, and for emergency's only. Citizens should not have to worry because they dial 911 or 112 for an emergency situation. In America, gun violence have been on a rise after the Oregon Community College, but in Australia, they have strict gun control policy, because of that they have less suicides, less random crimes, and overall less violence. In an article, Douglas Weil said, “But bringing more guns into homes—where married couples occasionally fight, in which teens sometimes contemplate suicide, and in which the curiosity of young children often leads them to look through their parents' dresser drawers—will lead to more death” (Weil). Also in another article, Goldberg said, “ Guns are responsible for roughly 30,000 deaths a year in America; more than half of those deaths are suicides. In 2010, 606 people, 62 of them children younger than 15, died in accidental shootings” (Goldberg). Gun needs to be in control due to increasing of shootings, suicide, and