Essay Against Gun Control

Guns do not kill people. People kill people.There are a lot of reasons that gun control is not the answer. I am strongly against gun control, because I think that if we go through with these laws it will not help. I think it will increase the deaths by guns, and I do not want people to die, that is why I am against it. There are reasons that it will not work, like it’s impossible to get rid of the supply of guns we have because it is too large. There are disadvantages like people won’t have the right to self-defense, and guns stop more crimes than they cause. Also, the number of murders by gun has significantly decreased in the past twenty years, so why are we all of a sudden trying to pass these gun control laws. These are just a few reasons why I think that gun control is not the answer to the problem with the murders. First, there are many reasons that the gun control law will not work. “There is no possible way to extinguish the huge supply of guns in the United States alone.” ”6” There is just too many guns. “If a nationwide gun confiscation program was attempted, they would have to confiscate over 350 million firearms.” ”1” There would be a lot of guns that would not be confiscated and that means that a lot of people do not have guns, but a lot of people still do have guns and those people without guns are gonna be easy targets for criminals. Also, what would make you think that a criminal would actually turn his or her gun in? If they have already broken laws, what would make them want to follow this law? This law just makes it easier for criminals to kill people because no one has guns to stop them. “Also, about half of Americans are against strict gun laws, which is a larger amount than those who are for stricter gun laws” ”3”. So why is there still an argument over gun control if more citizens of the United States do not want stricter gun control laws than do? If the law is going to affect all the citizens in the United States, then the government should make sure that more people want the law than do not. “Over the past twenty-five years, the number of Americans that want stricter gun control is declining, even though the number of mass shootings rises.” ”5”People are becoming smarter, and understand that if people had guns than more mass shootings will be stopped. Even though Chicago has some of, if not the strictest gun laws in the United States, “a person is still shot every 2.8 hours.” “1” If Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws and it doesn’t work, then how could we expect it to work in other states. People say that Chicago isn’t proof that it won’t work because Chicago is already so bad, but if we have less strict laws in other states why would bad people wanna stay in Chicago? Most groups that want to ban guns are mostly against assault guns, military grade weapons that shoot faster and farther. “If we ban assault weapons our society would not be any safer. The shooter could substitute the weapon for a non-assault weapon that is exactly the same.” ”2” The assault guns do not make it any easier for people to kill other people. The kind of gun does not make …show more content…
It will just cause even more crimes. We will never be able to get rid of the gun supply in the United States, it would break the second, fourth, fifth, and fourteenth amendments. The people who made the amendments were people who helped create this country. They would not make a amendment that would hurt the very thing that they created. And the number of murders has gone down in the past years, so why would we want to think about gun control now. We should have thought about in the last 25 years, because it was much worse than, then it is now, but now gun control is not needed. The United States would benefit more if we did not have these laws, then if we do have these laws. These are the reasons that I am strongly against gun