We made drugs illegal, people still do them so what do you think making guns illegal is gonna do? All we hear about these days is what gonna stop criminals from having guns in their hands. Gun control. There's not as much as you think that we can do stop them from having access to guns. Even if we make it illegal to have possession of them, If not all of them then one of them will still have possession of one. We made drugs illegal, people still do them so what do you think making guns illegal is going to do? So here's the question is it worth it to make guns illegal? Let's take a look back at what happened in the past.
The farthest back we can look is 1999, about the instant check system. The National Rifle Association has been the longest most powerful group opposing nearly all federal and state firearm regulations (National Rifle n.p ). They have argued that
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He brought 15 high capacity magazines that each contained 30 bullets (Hakim 6). All of these shootings had a couple things in common, all used high capacity magazines and all used ar type rifles. In 1989 Mr. ruger proposed a ban on high capacity magazines, in 1994 he said he would only sell them to police officers (Hakim 6). Maybe it's not AR style rifles and maybe it's any weapon that's semi automatic. An uzi semiautomatic rifle, a semi automatic 12 gauge, and a semiautomatic pistol were used in a couple different mass shootings (Hakim 6). Everyone looks at these school shootings like it was the guns fault, what if we do ban guns and then someone still keeps one? Then no one will have a gun to protect themselves. Both assault weapons and high capacity magazines were banned through a 1994 measure signed by president Bill Clinton (Hakim 6). What happened to that? Why did that fall through if its so smart to ban