People are smart and will find a way to get around the law if one is created to ban guns. People have done this with the topic of drugs; since drugs are illegal, people have resorted to get high off of new legal substances like sharpies. Using this as an example of what people do to get around the law will help prove that if guns are banned, people would create a new way of harming someone. This new harmful invention could potentially become worse that using a gun ever was. These examples go back to how the guns don’t decide if they want to kill a person, they don’t have a brain; it is the people behind the gun pulling the trigger deciding that they want to commit an illegal and harmful act upon another human being or living animal (Larry Greenemeier). …show more content…
Making the ownership of guns illegal actually promotes the formation of illegal gun gangs and trading. Usually, from my experience, when a certain minor action or object is prohibited or illegal, it makes a group of people want to do or obtain that action or object more than they would have if it was legal. As a personal example, while I was in Greece last summer visiting my family, I noticed the difference in how the teenagers and young adults acted in comparison to in America. Driving in Greece is prohibited to everyone under the age of 18. The people I have met there have told me that they think this age is too old. As a result, I would see many underage drivers, mostly boys driving mopeds, as young as 13 or 14 years old. Those people wanted to do something that was prohibited and illegal until they were the age of 18. In America, I personally have not seen this problem occurring as bad as I saw it in Greece. We are allowed to receive our permit when we are 15 years old and 9 months. This is a reasonable age, and the people that I know are fine with this age. If we accept and are ok with the law then, from my experience, I have found that people seem to not want to break it. On the contrary, based on personal experiences, the people who were not ok with the law constantly felt the need to break it. My prediction is that, in the future, the