Gun Control Problems

Gun control laws create many problems. For example people want to increase gun control procedures to decrease the amount of shootings there are. They push this even though according to the The Trace mass shootings account for only 2% of annual gun deaths. Another reason people try to push gun control is to make it harder for criminals to get guns. According to Criminals don’t follow laws, a user on Debate.org “The whole point of so called gun control is to keep those who should not have guns from obtaining them.” This is true the people they are trying to keep from getting guns are criminals. Now, when did criminals start following laws? Criminals don’t follow the laws. At that point they are making it harder for someone who is legitimately trying to get a gun have more trouble.

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A way to do that would be making all gun sales have to go through a background check. We make it so that company to person or private sales all have mandatory background checks. For the private sales they would have to go to someone who could do the background checks. They wouldn’t have to pay as they would be free since they are mandatory by law. This allows civilians to acquire weapons but makes it more difficult for criminals and terrorists to get firearms.

With that, we know there are many ways that we can let the peaceful civilians keep their weapons but reduce gun violence at the same time. While gun control is not the most effective way or constitutionally correct there are other ways. It could be something like working on better mental health care. Or even making it so that you have to do a background check to acquire a firearm. This let’s civilians keep their firearms but also reduces gun violence and still puts a small block in the way of criminals acquiring