Should guns be more restricted to the general public? (Gun Ban)
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Started: | 4/3/2014 | Category: | Politics | ||
Updated: | 7 years ago | Status: | Post Voting Period | ||
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I am only 14. Please don't judge my grammar, and I am going off of my own research. I don't think guns should be banned to the general public. Criminals don't follow laws. That's what makes them criminals! So if the legislature passes laws saying that citizens (who pass background checks, of course), can't have firearms to defend themselves (liek if an intruder came into their home), then more people would get injured or even die because of it. There will be more complicated court trials (and new laws will have to be passed) like the self-defense argument (such as the Treyvon Martin case). I will be fine if more strict background checks are required, but the people have a right (ahem, The Constitution) to be able to practice self-defense. Criminals won't follow the laws of gun-banning. So we need to be ready.
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Or we can think about it this way. If the shooters had not been allowed access to guns so easily, the Sandy Hook incident might never have happened. The suggestion you are making now is for us to do nothing and maintain the status quo. My suggestion would not be to eliminate guns completely from the start, but rather sponsor for a gradual decline.
At the Sandy Hook incident, if just one teacher had had a gun in the classroom, then some of those kids might have lived to see their next birthday. If we can completely eliminate all firearms from the public, that's great. Butte chances that we can do that are extremely slim. The most we can do now is allow people to defend themselves so criminals will injure less people.
Just because criminals might find a way to go around the law doesn't mean we should simply disregard the possibility of stoping them, especially considering the fact that most criminals are nonprofessionals. In China there was an incident where a man used a knife in attempt to kill innocent people. Officials say good thing he didn't have a gun or else more lives would've been lost. America has had enough gun violence that it doesn't need to add more to its growing list.
Consider this, what is the possibility that you will ever need a gun in your life, wherever you are?
Just because criminals go against the law, doesn't mean we should make it easy for them to do so. Violence only induce more violence. We are hoping to move away from that. The various shooting incidents in the United STates can further prove my point.