Why Does Gun Control Help Reduce Crime?

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Gun control is a law in which determines how firearms are used, sold and who have the right to use them. There are statistics that show how most of the population of a country is in favor of owning a firearm for self-defense. In my opinion, gun control should be enforced because it will make us safer and would reduce crimes. If people use guns as self-defense then they would increase the homicide rate. Therefore, why won’t people agree with gun control if it will help reduce crimes? Gun control has been an important topic for the past few years. According to the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states that "A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear …show more content…

The freedom of gun ownership would lead to children coming into contact with a firearm and result in a dangerous accident. In the United States the second cause for children is firearm homicide. For example, in 2007 more children were killed by the use of a gun than police officers at work. With this is in mind, you can see why gun control should be enforced. To demonstrate whether a person should own a firearm or not, Joe Messerli wrote an article to compare the pros and cons of owning a firearm. In favor of gun control he first, stated that the right to own a gun should be restricted because it would reduce crime. Second, those mental disabled persons, kids who are bullied and aggravated workers could cause a dangerous incident that would not have occurred if gun ownership was restricted. Third, a person who has a gun would be in more danger than a person without one against a criminal. Fourth, suicide and crimes of love or jealousy are more likely to occur easier with a firearm available. Fifth, the Second Amendment of the Constitution was meant for the military rather than the citizens. Sixth, just by having a firearm makes a crime more dangerous. Seventh, if the freedom of …show more content…

Not only would it reduce crime, it would make people feel safer. Gun violence has come to the attention of most citizens over the past years because of the disagreement of whether or not firearms should be restricted. There will always be those who oppose gun control but they may not know the mayor consequences’ having a gun implies. You could be the next victim of a shooting by a person who owns a

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