Guns Be Outlawed in the U.S
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The topic that we will be discussing today is that whether guns should or shouldnt be outlawed in the U.S. The fact that guns may be banned is not going to be as effective as we might think, because there is still a possibility that even if the ban was enacted then the crime rate could, instead of going down, it could increase because of the lack of self-defense when someone tries to break into your house or rob your business. For instance the rate of violent crime in the U.K. is ten times -even with its gun laws enacted- more than that of the U.S. – without strict gun laws. Though guns are widely used in the crimes of America and are very dangerous it is not the gun that does the killing, it is the person who is behind the gun who is making the wrong decisions. Instead of wholly restricting guns to civilians it would be thrice more effective if we just limit the amount of arms and be able to document who bought the weapon and where and also add more steps to the registration processes such as more in depth background checks this will be able to limit how many gun owners run the possibility of shooting another being.
Joel Barlow, a political theorist of Jeffersons time, wrote tellingly: “(The disarming of citizens has) a double effect, it palsies the hand and brutalizes the mind: a habitual disuse of physical forces totally destroys the moral (force); and men lose at once the power of protecting themselves and discerning the causes of their oppression.” We live with a recent history of massacres by governments that have dwarfed in scope and cruelty anything Barlow or Jefferson could have imagined. The Turkish massacre of the Armenians, the Nazi “final solution,” the soviet purges, the killing fields of Cambodia and the Hutu-Tutsi Massacres in Rwanda; each and every one of these vast and hideous slaughters was preceded by the disarmament of the victims by the government. It is more important than ever, today after a century of blood, that we retain the power to both protect ourselves and to discern the causes of such oppressions. That case has never been in civilian arms borne by free people, but in their opposite and enemy, not merely as a deterrent against criminals and tyrants, but as a gift and sacrament and affirmation to ourselves.
Sure guns are involved in many killings and violent crimes, the guns are not the conscious being that is doing the decision making they are just the tool used by that being when they make that wrong choice. It is usually the people whom are oppressed, bullied, and mistreated who become the shooters and mass murderers. Most of the problems we have with the shootings could be avoided if only we as a human race could see what we do to others just by our words and actions alone.
Another instance of the gun bans not being up to par is that in comparison in the amount of violent crimes between the United States and the United Kingdoms. Between the two the U.K. has ten times more violent crimes in one year than the U.S. has in that same amount of time. Although the U.K. has gun bans enacted and the U.S. has only certain weapons outlawed to civilian use without certain certifications. This is because; even though guns are