The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

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Imagine a scenario where you went out with some friends late at night and were walking back home when all of a sudden from the shadows comes a mugger with an illegal gun. Normally, you'd be carrying a gun to protect yourself but because of recent laws passed by the government you no longer own a gun. But wait, isn't it illegal for a mugger to have a gun, so how come he has one and you don't? This is the issue gun rights supporters have with gun control supporters. If laws prohibiting guns are passed but criminals don't follow them while you do, you can't protect yourself. In the Killing Contagion, facts such as 346 mass shootings have occurred within 17 years according to sources such as USA Today. However, "facts" are not always 100% right as they can be stretched to fit someone's agenda. Gun …show more content…

Como put it. By using people's unfamiliarity with firearms, agendas are being pushed further for gun controllers. A plain M4A1 rifle is legal in NY but merely because the same rifle could have a foldable stock, an extended mag, and/or a holographic sight, it looks threatening to the public in comparison. In “Why More Guns Won’t Make Us Safer”, Faircloth brings up a commonly used "fact" by gun controllers, the US "rate of homicides is dramatically higher than most countries…" while this is only partially true, note the writer omitted the numerical value of the statistic for the rate of homicides. 0.6% of all deaths in America are murders, translating to 6 out of 1000 people murdered, and of the 6, not all were murdered using guns. The qualifications for a school shooting have also changed according to gun controller's whim, sometimes, a school shooting qualified as any incident within 1 mile of a school as Mr. Como informed us. Manipulating facts are the primary way in which gun controllers try to get their point across since the truth doesn't support their

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