Guns in the USA

Gun control is one of the most argued issues in the USA today. Many people believe there should be laws that control who are allowed to have a gun and more extreme people believe no one should be able to have guns at all. Many other people believe there should be no laws controlling who is allowed to buy guns because it would infringe upon the right in the Second Amendment of the constitution.

 

FOR GUN CONTROL

http://listverse.com/2013/04/21/10-arguments-for-gun-control/

 

This is a website discussing why Americans should have laws that control who is allowed to purchase and use guns. The page was published by the site Listverse. They publish many lists of ten things such as this list for 10 ten reason why Americans need gun control, and some of the lists are submitted by fans. It has been featured in different countries like England, Scotland and the USA. This list states reasons why Americans need laws controlling guns such as there are more homicides with guns, there are more suicides, and there are more mass murders that happen with guns. I agree with this website. It makes me uncomfortable to think that so many people are allowed to carry guns. At my university so far this semester there has been 3 or 4 robberies at gun point and I just don’t think that’s right.

 

AGAINST GUN CONTROL

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/arguments-against-gun-control.html

 

This is a website discussing why Americans shouldn’t have laws controlling who can purchase guns. It was published on Buzzle.com. This site is about informing citizens who want to know things on many different topics. They do research on topics and then publish articles about them. Some different arguments on why people shouldn’t be allowed to make laws controlling guns are people who are victims of crime won’t be able to defend themselves, states with the lowest gun crimes are the states who allow people to carry guns, and it will infringe on Americans rights granted to them by the Second Amendment.

 

I personally am pro-gun control. I think it can be scary thinking anyone around me can be carrying a concealed gun and I don’t even know it. I’m American and it makes me uncomfortable. I do understand the arguments against gun control made by this site though. There are people who do need to defend themselves and it does make citizens feel safe. Also people should be able to defend themselves from the government since that’s what the Founding Fathers wanted when they wrote the amendment. They wanted people to be able to form a militia in case the government got out of control.

 

Gun control is a very controversial subject and many people, including myself, have mixed views on it. I can see both sides of the arguments. This is one issue that will probably not go away for Americans for a long time.