Opposing_Gun_Control_Debate;_Conclutionist

According to the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics almost forty percent of you here in this room will choose to place a guns in your home. Can you imagine that constitutional right being disregarded by our government' It is the second amendment; this means our forefathers thought it would be the second most important right to implement. The “right of the people to keep and bear arms” falls only behind freedom of religion, one of the original causes for pilgrims to leave their home countries. What would our society look like after removing our firearms' A college scholar named Daniel Hallquist says it perfectly, and I quote “The question is whether gun control laws would make it harder for the bad person to do his dirty work, or whether it would make it harder for the good person to defend himself from his attacker.” The recent mass shootings in Newtown, Connecticut and Aurora, Colorado may lead to people into believing that gun control is the only choice to eliminate or at least reduce the gun violence in America. A misinformed, naïve person’s first instinct is to believe that we should make it impossible for anyone to buy guns. What these people do not realize is that many countries around the world have attempted this action. As reported by The Christian Science Monitor, in 1998, the United Kingdom fully banned handguns, which caused an uprising in gang activity and overall crime. In the four years following, people learned how to convert, replicate, and reactivate guns, putting the law essentially ineffective. This is just one of the many examples of a governments failed attempt to reduce gun violence. Who is to say that gun control laws are to be any more effective in the United States' Also, people believe that removing guns will reduce crime. In 2002, five years after Australia enacted its gun ban, the Australian Bureau of Criminology admitted there is no correlation between gun control and the use of firearms in violent crime. In fact, the percentage of murders committed with a firearm was higher than it ever had been. If the US were to enact a similar ruling, we would see a similar increase of crime and murder. Guns play an important role in our present, past, and future. In the late eighteenth century, the British Colonies were able to revolt using personally owned weaponry that allowed us to become the country we are today. Instead of taking away guns in general, we should inform our citizens about guns before giving them the power to take or save a life. Let us empower the good people of our nation, not disarm them from the very thing used to against them.