Gun Control Essay, Research Paper

“Guns don’t kill people; people kill people” is more true than gun control advocates

admit. Look at the number of murders committed each year without guns. Stabbing

deaths occur as often as gun deaths in this area and elsewhere. Would those who favor

gun control also call for knife control?

Do you think persons intent on murder are not imaginative enough to kill without guns or

knives? I recall the 1982 murder of a woman with a sledgehammer by her estranged

husband at a nearby shopping center. Watch how quickly the art of poisoning returns

should other weapons be outlawed.

Prejudice Against Guns

Face it: People who want government enforced gun control are prejudiced against guns

and gun owners. Having already made up their minds that guns are inherently evil, they

reject facts to the contrary. They forget that ordinary citizens own guns primarily for

hunting, target shooting, and as collectibles, as well as for self-defense.

Worse than being prejudiced, those wanting laws to control gun ownership are

dangerous! For the doubtful possibility of saving some innocent lives, they would deny

ordinary citizens their right to keep and bear arms. These are the same people who would

use the force of government to deny you other human rights as well, which do not fit

their ideas about society. That is anti-liberal!

Guns for Self-Defense

When it comes to self-defense, guns are important to some people, especially women, the

poor, and the elderly. Consider how many rapes, muggings, and burglaries are prevented

by a potential victim flashing a gun.

Even so-called “Saturday night specials” will frighten criminals away. In fact, these

cheap guns are the choice of poor people, who are most likely to be victimized and least

able to afford expensive guns for self-defense. The show of any gun can be a deterrent to

crime.

A recent attempted robbery in a nearby town was foiled when the victim stabbed and shot

one of his assailants, scaring off the other two. We can only guess what would have

happened to the victim if defense with weapons were not possible–but he would have

been robbed for certain.

A Protection from Government

Those lobbying for laws to control guns assume the government police will always be

benign. There are many formerly free countries that are now dictatorships where citizens

made that mistake. Just imagine what government officials would do with records of gun

ownership if our government became totalitarian.

Not all that many years ago, a gun might have been the only thing that saved some blacks

in this country. Even government police posed a danger to you if you were black and

became “uppity.” How easy it is for those who would have the government control guns

to forget!