One of the biggest issues in the United States today seems to be gun control. The government is constantly proposing legislation for more and more gun control. Slowly they are chipping away at our constitutional right to keep and bear arms. You must ask yourself; for what reason does the government want to restrict law abiding citizens from owning guns? Certainly government is not so naive to think criminals will adhere to gun control laws. There just may be an underlying motive for gun control. After all, people would be easier to control if they were defenseless. Banning guns to reduce crime makes as much sense as banning alcohol to reduce drunk driving.
Gun control is based on the faulty notion that ordinary American citizens are too hazardous and ill tempered to be trusted with weapons. How would we even begin to go about confiscating all the guns from the law abiding citizens. The law enforcement agencies of this country have stated that most firearm owners in the opublic are better armed then they are. How then, will
An average household does not have a gun because they want to
Lets talk about a total gun ban. If that indeed came true, would the American society be safer? Truth is no. Besides the scary thought that only the Government would have guns, a ban would only work for those that follow the law. Criminals do not care if they go against the law. Take drugs, for example. Are there resctrictions placed on them? No. There is a TOTAL BAN on them, yet they continue to plague our society. We only do we make objects more diserable when we ban them.
Gun don't kill, humans do that. We cannot blame an inanimate object for the crimes and actions of human. Certainly guns are made primarily to kill but a lot never do. Cars were not meant to kill, but thousands do every minute of the day. Do we ban the car? People on the fringes of society are unlikely to be affected by gun control laws. Indeed, since many killers already have felony convictions, it is already unlawful for them to own a gun, but they tend to find one anyway. By allowing the gov
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