Persuasive Essay Against Gun Control

Although people say that gun control would reduce crime rate, gun control should not be heavily enforced because it is against the Second amendment; it would take away the ability to shoot recreationally, and it would not allow people to effectively protect themselves. Based on data from a 2000 study, US civilians used firearms to protect themselves and others around 989,883 times a year. As Thomas Jefferson once said - “The beauty of the second amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” . President Obama spoke of ‘Tens of Thousands’ of people who were killed by ‘gun violence’(Hoar). Yet as the editor of Townhall.com stated, he was ‘being extremely disingenious’ by failing to point out how many were the result of suicide and how many occur in very specefic parts of the country like Chicago, a city that has the strictest gun control in the United states (Hoar).
Gun control goes against the second amendment. The entire second amendment states that “ A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”. Now look at that
In the event of a home invasion, a well trained, armed civilian can and will most likely be far more effective and quicker in that situation than calling 911 and having to wait for however long it takes the first responders to arrive, and in that time people could get hurt or even killed. Gun control would possibly be a good idea in these situations or on a gun free zone , except for the one simple fact that criminals do not follow the law or any other rules that have been set. They do what they like, no matter what the consequences are and they do not who care who they kill or harm, but if every sane and law abiding american had a firearm on them majority of the criminals would not have the ability to commit crimes with no