Persuasive Essay--Pro Gun Controll
25 June 2013
Restricting Gun Control
Did you know that in the United States almost 100,000 people are shot or killed with a gun in one year? Ten thousand, five hundred and twenty-seven people die a year in handgun related incidents in the United States. This number, by far, outweighs the number of gun related deaths in countries such as Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan, which number thirteen, twenty-two, and eighty-seven, respectively. What is the reason for such drastic differences in numbers? Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan are all countries that have stricter gun control laws than the US. Mind you, these are just the number of deaths caused by handgun related incidents; however, that isn’t counting the thousands of deaths caused by other types of firearms; in one year, around thirty-thousand Americans die in gun violence. If the US adopted stricter gun control laws, the number of deaths would drop accordingly. Restricting the right to bear arms will undoubtedly make any community safer. Many people in every community around the country own guns. Granted, many of these guns are used for hunting, but they are still deadly weapons. The authorities would have to take everyone's guns away to really make a community safer. I believe that it would make a community safer because people use guns to kill both accidentally, and on purpose. Many people argue that they have guns for protection; protection from the other people who carry guns. They defend their possession of guns saying they can use their guns to kill an intruder. They also argue that their guns are used to hunt and feed their families. Although these defenses may be true, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide, criminal assault or homicide, or unintentional shooting death or injury than to be used in a self-defense shooting. On April 19, 2008, Anthony Klaseus of Belle Plaine and his son Hunter were hunting turkey about three miles west of Belle Plaine
Restricting Gun Control
Did you know that in the United States almost 100,000 people are shot or killed with a gun in one year? Ten thousand, five hundred and twenty-seven people die a year in handgun related incidents in the United States. This number, by far, outweighs the number of gun related deaths in countries such as Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan, which number thirteen, twenty-two, and eighty-seven, respectively. What is the reason for such drastic differences in numbers? Sweden, Great Britain, and Japan are all countries that have stricter gun control laws than the US. Mind you, these are just the number of deaths caused by handgun related incidents; however, that isn’t counting the thousands of deaths caused by other types of firearms; in one year, around thirty-thousand Americans die in gun violence. If the US adopted stricter gun control laws, the number of deaths would drop accordingly. Restricting the right to bear arms will undoubtedly make any community safer. Many people in every community around the country own guns. Granted, many of these guns are used for hunting, but they are still deadly weapons. The authorities would have to take everyone's guns away to really make a community safer. I believe that it would make a community safer because people use guns to kill both accidentally, and on purpose. Many people argue that they have guns for protection; protection from the other people who carry guns. They defend their possession of guns saying they can use their guns to kill an intruder. They also argue that their guns are used to hunt and feed their families. Although these defenses may be true, a gun is twenty-two times more likely to be used in a completed or attempted suicide, criminal assault or homicide, or unintentional shooting death or injury than to be used in a self-defense shooting. On April 19, 2008, Anthony Klaseus of Belle Plaine and his son Hunter were hunting turkey about three miles west of Belle Plaine
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