On April 16th, 2014 the Jenkins family turned in for the night. They hear something in the front room. It sounds like someone is breaking into the window in their living room. Mr. Jenkins gets out of bed to check what is going on. He enters the front room to find a man standing with a gun in his hand, pointing it directly at him. Mr. Jenkins has no form of protection in his house because in the year 2010 the government passed a law to make guns illegal. This scenario could happen to you if guns are outlawed in the United States. Guns are a major source of protection in the U.S. today. Without guns many more people would die and criminals would be the only ones to have control over them. Being very controversial, Gun Control is one of the leading debates in the Constitution today.

According to an article in Issues and Controversies, "The Second Amendment ... reads: 'a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, sh

Therefore if law-abiding citizens were unable to purchase or possess firearms, the only people who will be able to obtain them, would be criminals. Newton also reports that, "More gun carrying criminals are turning to family and friends for their weapons, rather than buying them at stores, gun shows, or flea markets" (1). If criminals were to get the guns illegally, crime rate would increase because law-abiding citizens would have no way of protecting themselves. Even if laws were set to make it harder for criminals to buy guns they would still find a way to obtain them. It is expressed in an article in Issues and Controversies that judges frequently fall short to take legal action on offender's cases involving firearm regulations "that are already in place" ("Update" 3). If other gun laws were taken into consideration, why would they be looked over more than the others that have already slid past courts?

The president of the United States, George Bush Jr., does his best in protecting American citizens from harm. Although according to

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