Gun Control In america today
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From time to time, we read in the newspapers and see it on TV about young children die or are badly injured because their parents or other gun owners don’t store their firearms properly, and children find loaded guns, use them unintentionally on themselves or other children. Also those scary school and church shootings that shocked many people around the nation. Can you fathom a more horrible way to die than by a large-caliber bullet? Gun situation in the United States today has become a serious problem. It is serious enough that guns should be banned or controlled. If we didn’t own a handgun, these tragic would never happened, therefore, we should not allowed every person to own a handgun or at least a tougher handgun control law should be enforced to keep those criminals from reaching a handgun. In the following paragraphs we will explore the ideas whether owning a handgun will prevent crimes, and safe for the kids or they are just dangerous to our society.
Ever since the handguns are invented, many people have used them to commit crimes such as robbery, rape, and revenge. However handguns are not only used in committing crimes. Teenagers use guns for impulse suicides and for crimes, many young children are either seriously injured or killed by the handguns that adults carelessly leave loaded and laying around their homes. Even if they didn’t die from the shooting, they might be disabled for rest of their life, their life have been forever changed. Just imagine the pain and suffering they will experience, they are far more than most of the people do in a lifetime. On the other hand, how many violent crimes involving guns are committed each year? A lot! Advocates of gun control frequently argue that there is no defensible reason for innocent people to own handguns because they want to use them as self-defense when they are encountering a dangerous situation. But they are far from reality that innocent people with no criminals backgrounds these days are using handguns to kill people who...
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