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Thursday, March 23, 2006

Gun control and gun rights


The issue of gun control in the United States is not a new one. Many debates were made without a good result. Even though the statistics show the highest percent of gun murders is in the United States, most people love to have a gun. According to Gerard Taylor in his article” stop living in fear” the law of controlling bullet, increasing tax of it and delaying people to buy a gun have achieved successfully. However, if a person wants to commit a crime, he/she will buy a gun at any price. Criminals don’t care about how much they will pay to get a gun; they just focus on how they will do a crime. In addition, if criminals plan to commit crimes, they rarely change their minds. Furthermore, how can we reduce gun murders in the United States and gun companies are advocating to gun rights and glamorizing high grade model of guns through their advertisings! Agreeing with owning a gun doesn’t solve the problem or help us to reduce crimes, it creates a criminal society that everyone wants to protect him/her self and loves a gun .Getting a gun easily is the major reason for increasing a gun murders in the United States. Because of the accessibility of owning a gun, most people are worried and feel unsafe. A Gun is an easy tool to commit a crime. If we make a gun available in every store, we will be unsafe every day at any place. Other tools for committing crime can be less dangerous than guns. If we look at the statistic, we will never find the rate of murders by knife is high. In addition, the excuse of owning a gun as self defense has created lots of problems. Granted, if every family in the United States owns a gun, the rate of the gun murders would never decrease. While people believe that owning a gun can help them to protect themselves, their children will use their guns to protect themselves during a fight. Teens have a desire to try everything. Being strong and acting as an adult are kind of how they behave today. They may get their parents gun and commit impulse crimes or they may kill their parents if they disagree with them. According to a recent Harvard School of Public Health Survey, “59 percent of children in the sixth to twelfth grade said it was easy for them to get handguns”. Consequently, while we are voting for gun rights and having a big market share in a gun industry, we will never life in peace. We should restrict guns and curb gun violence before it becomes unsolvable.

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