Gun Control: an Infringement on Our Rights
Gun control and why it should not be as strict as it is.
If it becomes harder to buy a gun, more crime will be committed by people who avoid the legal way and its nuisances, and instead steal guns or engage in illegal arms sales. It also works the other way. If everyone in the country had a gun, most criminals would be too frightened to try anything. Would you hold up a bank if you knew that each teller has a semi-automatic ten gauge shotgun? Same goes for school shootings. If every teacher had a pistol, these massacres on the news wouldn’t exist.
Guns are an American tradition. You may automatically think of a cowboy, but it’s more than that. A great percentage of people across the nation enjoy the sport of hunting. Some people just like to shoot targets for fun or for competition. Others are antique gun collectors. If strict gun control laws were to make it harder for these people to get guns, or if the laws were to go as far as taking the guns away from them, you may have a riot on your hands; probably a violent one with guns.
With all of this being said, it is important to remember, no matter how cliché it sounds, guns don’t kill people, bullets do. But before you go trying to regulate the sales of bullets, you must also remember that a gun with a bullet in the chamber can sit in the center of a crowded room and still not kill anyone. That gun must be picked up, aimed at someone, the safety taken off, and the trigger pulled. People kill people. If you were to destroy every gun in the world, and make it impossible to create any more, there would still be murder: Strangulation, stabbing, drowning, and bludgeoning, just to name a few. The only way to stop murder is to put everyone in a straightjacket. Arms would be completely controlled. So forget strict gun control laws. They’re just a nuisance. Making it harder only hurts the good citizens, crime could be prevented if there were more guns, and making stricter laws destroys American tradition.
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Post Commentwolfen
On July 16, 2008 at 7:18 am
The reason for some not wanting any kind of gun control may not been in the interests of the general public? We are talking about the safety of general population against the rights of individula nutcases. Should as a society you protect a individual and have him/her kill in order to protect that individuals rights vs society as a whole, should the general population be protected against the one nutcase, maybe it is not fair, but life is not fair now is it. Is it fair to allow someone to murder a parents child in order to protect that individuals rights or should society be protected against the individual.Here is a radical thought AIMED AND TARGETED TO THOSE SAME NUTCASES.
The gun registry is the best idea, if you are a law-abiding citizen as you claim what are you afraid of? Just because someone knows you own that specific, gun so what? You think that it would be taking away your freedoms, give me a break. You cannot be put in prison simply because you own a registered gun or can you? Someone commits a crime with a gun, next thing you know. The police FIND THE WEAPON and now look, it belongs to you. Oops, that means the crime would and will be easier to solve the police now have a starting point. The police would be able to find the felon oh yes that would be you now would it not? The real reason you are against a gun registry is not because it is a waste of money, god knows government wastes money on totally stupid things as it is, why not spend it on something that would lower crime even if it is only modestly it would at least be some deterrence to crime. You felon can not use that weapon because it can be traced back to the registered owner and then traced to who purchased the gun,now can’t it. Or how about this thought could it be that the gun you carry was used in a crime, a murder case that is unsolved the parents wonder who murdered their beloved child and police are unable to solve it without a weapon the instrument of death that you carry around with you.
Alystar
On January 28, 2009 at 8:32 am
Sounds less like an essay more like a paranoid rant,
“The crazy people will always have guns.” you say, wouldn’t these “crazies” be more likely to shoot first if everyone was armed?
Yeah guns are an American tradition but so was slavery, such things aren’t set in stone.
vivereque
On May 5, 2009 at 9:23 am
I don’t own a gun, but I do believe that the right to bear arms is clearly stated in the U.S. Constitution and in the traditions of this nation. The people who wrote here against your article sound far more crazy, totalitarian, and paranoid than you do.
ieatrainbows
On October 23, 2009 at 8:43 am
Good article. You should totally check out my Gun Control article:
http://socyberty.com/issues/gun-control-and-the-constitution/
Thanks in advance.