Gun Control

Guns, to many people are considered to be bad things. In actuality the gun has never killed anyone, but it has been the person pulling the trigger. Our right to own guns separates us from an oppressive government. Many people also believe that if gun control laws were put into place than there would be less crime. This is completely absurd, because statistics have proven that where there is gun control there is more crime. The truth of the matter is that we do not need any new laws for guns we simply need to enforce the ones we already have.

Each person in the United States has the right to own a gun. It is granted to all of us in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was written to protect our rights as people and keep the government from infringing upon us. Today it seems that more and more people are trying to take away our right to own a firearm and it is coming from political figures and leaders (http://www.nraila.org). These are the same people who the Bill of Rights is supposed to protect our rights from. Our right to bear arms separates us from an oppressive form of government which starts by taking away peoples rights, like owning guns. All of these people are saying that guns are the cause of murder and death, but the truth is, they are not. Guns are used for self defense.

In September of 2004 there was a federal assault weapons ban which had just ended. When this ban ended, a leading gun control advocate, Sarah Brady was warning us that our streets would be filled with AK-47s and Uzis. Apparently without the gun ban

our society would turn into one filled with murder and constant bloodshed. What actually happened was a decrease in gun violence. In 2004 when the statistics first came out, the number of murders fell 3.6%. It was the first drop since 1999 and the number of murders kept falling (http://www.rightwingnews.com). Not only did this happen but interestingly enough there were seven states with gun and weapon bans that did not see a large drop in the number of murders. The other 43 states saw a drop in murders without new laws. On average, the number of murders in states with bans dropped about 2.4%, in three of them the murder rates actually raised. The states without bans actually saw more than a 4% decrease in the number of murders (http://www.rightwingnews.com). One thing that people are failing to realize is that criminals will be able to obtain guns regardless of a ban or not. If you take away our rights to