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Essay:Gun Control Essay "Gun Distribution: More Than a Shot in the Dark" (view source)
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Citizens should be permitted to bear arms because they offer securities, the populace should not be subjected to the liberal standpoint on the gun control issue, and firearms can be used recreationally. Guns protect us not only from the common criminal, but from the creation of a tyrannical government. Armaments are viewed negatively and citizens should not be subjected to these faulty arguments. Finally, weapons are employed in several legal recreational activities. Therefore, we should defend our right to bear arms for the protection of ourselves and our basic liberties in this country.
Citizens should be permitted to bear arms because they offer securities, the populace should not be subjected to the liberal standpoint on the gun control issue, and firearms can be used recreationally. Guns protect us not only from the common criminal, but from the creation of a tyrannical government. Armaments are viewed negatively and citizens should not be subjected to these faulty arguments. Finally, weapons are employed in several legal recreational activities. Therefore, we should defend our right to bear arms for the protection of ourselves and our basic liberties in this country.
Fact is the vast majority of gun related violence and casualties are gang/drugs related, crimes of passion, accidents, suicides or incidents like Columbine and Virginia Tech (you can't slaughter a bunch of people with a knife.)
Incidents involving "law abiding" citizens defending themselves against criminals make up only a small portion of the total.
The image of the limitless source of the black market, open to any common thief is an illusion: most thiefs and burglars don't even wear guns while on the job and most of the guns on the black market are guns stolen from citizens.
If there would be a federal gun prohibition, the black market would dry up to a small pond within a couple of years, which would only be accessible to major criminal organizations who usually don't involve themselves with burglaries and such, kinda like the way things are in Europe.
Also, guns won't protect the people from a totalitarian government: even the most totalitarian regimes always have a sizeable group of civilian supporters, besides, are you gonna stop a tank with your hunting rifle?
If you don't want a totalitarian government then don't vote for the wrong people, because these regimes always start out with popular support.
Furthermore, guns are not recreational toys, they grant their owner the power to take a human life by merely curling one finger, and that's just too great a responsibility for most people.
There just is no place for weapons of war within a civilized society.
America should have banned guns before the rise of the Crips and Bloods and other such organizations, it could have been like the UK and the rest of Europe, but maybe it's too late to end the vicious circle by now...
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