gun control
...l refute this claim. Their reasoning is that making guns less available or harder to obtain will, in the end, only hurt the law-abiding citizen. Stronger gun laws would help law enforcement solve gun crimes and help prevent gun violence. I think that a few issues that directly affect Americans are crime and especially gun violence. Whether they are urban, suburban or rural, younger or older, male or female, crime and the fear of crime shapes people's daily lives, from where they want to live to how late they stay out at night. Those people who are against gun control believe that the right to keep and bear arms goes far beyond the Second Amendment. Britain, which was hailed by gun control supporters, is suffering from a crazed crime wave. Gun crime is up and even the police need to arm themselves now for self-protection. The International Crime Victims Survey, done each year in the Netherlands, determined that England is the most violent western country in the world. Australia, another gun ban country, is a close second. Some people think that states in our country’s law-abiding citizens can legally carry a firearm for self-protection, and it will lower crime in states with restrictive firearm laws. Many young people die from firearms everyday. This includes any person under 21 who engages in criminal activity. Many of these young career criminals are killed when they attempt armed robbery and come up against an armed storeowner who is trained in firearms and self-protection. Many others are gang-bangers who would kill each other even if there were no firearms. In fact, less than one child a day dies from accidental firearm discharge. I think to own a gun presents a higher risk for homicide and gun accidents in households. There are many accidents that happen everyday in households about someone being shot or accidentally shot him or her. Handguns should be illegal because studies have shown that they are forty-three times more likely to be used against your own family than a criminal is. That is why police official advise for anyone who keeps a gun at home to keep the gun and the bullets in a s...