FREE ESSAY ON AGAINST GUN CONTROL

AGAINST GUN CONTROL

Some people are for new gun control laws, but I am one of the many that are against them.
Now, it is impossible to pick up a newspaper or watch the evening news without being
bombarded with the details of another mass shooting, or another child that was killed
while playing with a gun. Unfortunately, there are many people who take the easy way out
when it comes to a solution to this problem, they choose gun control. There are many
facts that support my position in which I will explain.
First of all, numerous studies have proven that there are many protective uses of
firearms, but most are masked by the few larger negative gun stories in the news. Mark
Johnson, a journalist for Media General News, reports that despite scholarly studies
indicating that law-abiding citizens use firearms from 764,000 to 3.6 million times each
year to thwart crime, most defensive gun use incidents go unreported to the authorities.
A survey done by Florida State University criminologist, Gary Kleck, suggests that there
are 2.2-2.5 million protective uses of guns each year. John R. Lott, a graduate of
University of Chicago Law school, has found with his studies that allowing citizens to
carry concealed weapons deters violent crimes and it appears to produce no increase in
accidental deaths. Also, National attention has been given recently to the notion that
foreign countries that harshly restrict gun ownership have crime rates much lower than
that of the U.S. . In fact the lowest gun crime rates in Japan, Great Britain, and in
Canada were when there was virtually no gun crime laws.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution states that, A well-regulated militia, being
necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms
shall not be infringed,. The definition of gun control is; government regulation of
possession and use of firearms by private citizens.These laws do nothing to stop
criminals from buying illegal guns, who are unlikely to obey the law and register their
guns. With these laws, gun rights groups say the legislation is infringing mostly on the
constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens that are just trying to protect themselves.
Our Founding Fathers gave the citizens of the United States the right to bear arms, and
our current government is slowly trying to take it away.
The Columbine high school shootings victims are blaming weak gun control laws for this
incident. In reality it should be the parent's responsibility to control their children
and lock guns away. Also, just because of one isolated incident, I don't believe people
should try to take guns away from responsible people. It is much harder to buy guns with
these laws and it takes more money and time to get them. That is why I believe the
citizens of Columbine are wrong for blaming this incident and the few others on the
concept of gun control laws.
Many believe that gun control only takes guns away from law-abiding citizens and it does
nothing to stop criminals from buying illegal guns, who are unlikely to obey the law and
register their guns. I feel that the term gun control is improperly used. The government
is using it as a way to take our right to bear arms and other than a bodyguard or a law
enforcement officer at one's side twenty-four hours a day, the most effective deterrent
to criminal attack is the criminal's fear that the victim is armed and prepared to defend
him or her self. It is for these reasons that I am against these and also because America
should be able to protect themselves from criminals that do abuse firearms.