Pros And Cons For Gun Control

Grayson Maurer

Mrs. Gallos

English 3 Honors

29 March, 2018

Gun Control Right now in the United States there are more guns than people. According to NPR the United States ranks number one in guns per capita, at one hundred and one guns per person. With this many guns politicians are searching for ideas on how to get rid of them and put us on par with other countries in terms of civilian firearm use. The main idea proposed is Gun Control, which are laws that would regulate the possession and sales of specific firearms and ammunitions. There are pros and cons to Gun Control and there are plenty of arguments with valid sources that prove that Gun Control would not work, and could potentially hurt the United States more than help. There are also

This quickly fell off and did not go through, but it is an example of how even things that occured at the foundations of this country could potentially happen now. They wanted to do the same thing that Virginia and West Virginia did shortly after the Civil War. If New California seceded and then other states agreeing with their views seceded we could be slung into another American Civil War, and the only way we could possibly win is with a civilian armed militia. Gun control could potentially prevent our livelihood and deny us our basic human rights. In reality, Gun Control would not stop gun violence, it would cause most of the United States to hate the government more than they already do, and the government would have to take more than half of the guns by force. The proposition of a buyback program much like what happened in Australia also is not viable. When Australia bought back the weapons from their citizens, they only bought back around three hundred thousand guns. The United states has over twelve and a half times more. The united states is already in too much debt, and assuming that the average firearm costs six hundred

Another reason gun control would not work is that many of the guns in the United States are not registered or in our national database, the government has little way to know these guns even exist, let alone where they are and how many of them there are. It would be relatively impossible for the government to collect even a fraction of these guns. All of these unregistered guns are untraceable and owned by criminals. Gun control would simply take away people’s defence against these criminals with their illegally owned firearms. Everyone would instantly become a target because criminals know that on average it takes a police officer on average eighteen minutes to respond. By that time criminals could have already committed their crime and left. A 1982 survey of male felons in eleven state prisons found that on average 34% of them had been scared off, shot at, wounded or captured by an armed victim, 40% said that they did not commit a crime because they knew or believed that the victim was carrying a gun, and around 70% of them knew someone else who fit into these statistics. A lot of people say that stopping crimes by using a firearm only happens in action movies, but in reality the number of crimes stopped a year according to the CDC is around six hundred thousand, and that is only the reported ones. The last and final argument that we can look at is the “gun show loophole” this is the idea that at