Gun Control
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Guns, to many people are considered to be bad things. In actuality the gun has never killed anyone, but it has been the person pulling the trigger. Our right to own guns separates us from an oppressive government. Many people also believe that if gun control laws were put into place than there would be less crime. This is completely absurd, because statistics have proven that where there is gun control there is more crime. The truth of the matter is that we do not need any new laws for guns we simply need to enforce the ones we already have.
Each person in the United States has the right to own a gun. It is granted to all of us in the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was written to protect our rights as people and keep the government from infringing upon us. Today it seems that more and more people are trying to take away our right to own a firearm and it is coming from political figures and leaders (
In September of 2004 there was a federal assault weapons ban which had just ended. When this ban ended, a leading gun control advocate, Sarah Brady was warning us that our streets would be filled with AK-47s and Uzis. Apparently without the gun ban
our society would turn into one filled with murder and constant bloodshed. What actually happened was a decrease in gun violence. In 2004 when the statistics first came out, the number of murders fell 3.6%. It was the first drop since 1999 and the number of murders kept falling (