Looking death in the eye is one of the most ghastly and horrific events that anyone can face. I had the displeasure two years ago in the fall. My brother, a friend, and myself were messing around on a Friday night, when a truck driver brandished a pistol at us. We stared down the barrel of a gun and were left traumatized. Since then, my viewpoint on guns and gun control has shifted dramatically; the current system of gun ownership is dangerous. In the year 2015 alone, there were 36,000 gun fatalities in the United States (Siegel et al. 1). That’s close to 100 deaths a day by firearms. Those are just the confirmed deaths, imagine the injuries, damage to property, and crimes stacked on top of that 36,000. It’d be much harder for mass shootings, murders, suicide, and other crimes to take place without the ease of modern firearms. Crudely put, nobody is going to attempt to rob a bank with a machete in place of a pistol. For a country that advocates for human life, freedom, and peace, it seems hypocritical that guns are so easy to get and how openly they are used. The moment someone turns 18, they …show more content…
People like this never aim to kill, but rather shoot targets to hone their marksmanship. Additionally, a culture has grown around the guns themselves. Children and adults gawk wildly at the different types of firearms, their capacities, and their usage. As hard as it is to deprive people of their hobbies and joys, guns are seriously destructive and have no right in the public’s hands. There is some merit to the argument of security and defence, but most people are defending against other guns or weapons. A notable portion of robberies involve guns, and it’s ironic that people use guns to defend against other guns. If firearms were much more stringently regulated, the problem of personal security would dissipate. Although there would still be break ins and other crimes, they’d be significantly less fatal without