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The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

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Do you ever think about what would happen if the government confiscate many of our gun rights away? Do you ever feel threatened by this? Just imagine sitting in a movie theatre,restaurant, or anywhere else where you may spend your time. You are in that certain location happily, and a man with a gun walks in, what do you do? The government has already put a ban on concealed carry, we will have a hard time defending ourselves against the law breaking citizen choosing to illegally have a gun and attack us. This situation is at high probability because the government's ban on gun sales and concealed carry does not take away the guns from the individuals involved with illegal activity resulting in law abiding citizens feeling unprotected. Gun control is the government's regulation of selling, owning and use of guns, gun control can lead to ban of guns. If you put a ban on gun sales it can deny self defense and also it can deny individual’s safety. In a study done by the NRA, the national rifle association, stated that guns are used for self defense about 2.5 million times a year,meaning that if we take away …show more content…

John R. Lott Jr, gun rights activist states that “The problem with such laws is that they take away guns from law-abiding citizens, while would be criminals would ignore them. In the years 1982 and 2012 there were 62 mass shootings in the US, and out of the 62 shootings only 49 of the shooters used legally obtained guns. These records show that there are ways to get around gun laws and obtain guns illegally. Another study by PEW Research said that 80 percent of female gun owners and 79 percent of male gun owners said that owning a gun made them feel safer, many Americans are concerned about their safety. Many Americans got their feeling of safety taken away from them and many will try and retrieve it

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Have you ever felt frightened and defenseless? You recognize, that feeling you get when you 're walking through a tough division of the town entirely and you realize that your phone just went bad and there 's no one around to hear you yell if something went on? Now imagine feeling that way everywhere you live, all of the time. This is the reality that we United States citizens would be living in if our government were to implement total gun control.

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Gun control will make the people of the US weak because they will not be able to protect themselves when a dangerous man has gotten a gun illegally and wants to harm. “As columnist Thomas Sowell has noted: ‘The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law-abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available. Banning guns will not stop the crazed few who seek to open fire on the public’” (Hunter).

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Therefore, we, as a nation, strongly urge you to consider the following points - the main point being that gun control laws will give people true freedom. The need for gun control cannot be silenced by your blind support of the Second Amendment. You state that “If you aren’t free to protect yourself - when government puts its thumb on that freedom - then you aren’t free at all.” Yet, freedom is not measured by how many guns one person can buy.

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