There are many people supporting gun control laws for many reasons. First, they believe that if one reduces the amount of guns in circulation that the rate of crime will decrease. But if one takes guns away from the law-abiding citizens, how are they supposed to protect themselves? The supporters of gun control laws have forgotten about the hundreds of thousands of lives guns save each year, when used defensively (Cottrol 2).
Another reason that they support gun control laws, is that they says that gun control laws reduce crime rates. However, there is no statistical data to back this up. Many controlled tests were taken and yet no results were found in support of the gun control laws (Moorhouse, and Wanner 2).
Also, gun control law supporters always bring up how many lives are killed by guns each year, but the fail to mention how many lives are saved each year by guns. Research by Florida State University Gary Kleck and others indicate between two and three million cases of self-defense per year (Cottrol 2). That's a lot of lives saved and yet the liberals who support gun control laws never mention that. I wonder why?
Lastly, gun control laws supports state that the Second Amendment doesn't protect each citizen's right to own a firearm. But, what they fail to mention is that gun control isn’t listed among the federal government’s powers, either in the body of the Constitution or in the later amendments, and they have never been amended to enable the federal government to limit the right to keep and bear arms (Sobran 1, 2). This means that the federal government doesn’t even have the power to enact gun control laws, in the first place.
These are the reasons why liberals support gun control laws.
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ReplyDeleteI believe that guns should be allowed to be caried to a degree. I do not believe that people should be able to carry any gun. I mean come on no one should need a machine gun or like a bazuka. Hand held guns and rifles are good enough they will do the job.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree. I'm not trying to say that everyone should own uzis and rpgs, but if the democrats get their way, then we're not even gunna have pistols or rifles. Lol, we might be allowed to have nerf dart guns, if we're lucky XDD
ReplyDeleteUm this is an interesting topc. I think that people should have the right to wn a gun for protection against others but that is the only reason why people should have guns. Some crazy people have guns that shouldn't. Most hunt on private property or in a forest behind someones house and it is too dangerous. People with guns need to think.
ReplyDeleteWell, yes that's correct, but most people aren't "crazy" and most people don't hunt dangerously, because they have courses that require you to learn how to hunt safely. I don't think that law-abiding citizens should suffer because of these few individuals. But, I respect your opinion and will take it into consideration. ^^
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