The Issue Of Gun Control - 1288 Words

The issue of gun control is one the most heavily debated topics in today’s society. With the increase in school shootings starting around the turn of the century, gun control advocates have been blaming guns instead of the deranged people for these heinous acts, and been calling for the banning of guns for civilian use. Gun control would be harmful in today’s day and age where people don’t have complete trust in the government and the police and where gangs are very prevalent especially in urban areas along with the growing number of school shootings over the last 20 years. We the people need to fight for our rights to bear arms to protect ourselves against our government and for personal protection of ourselves and the community.†¦show more content†¦This shows that the 2nd amendment was created to protect ourselves against an oppressive government and for personal self defense. Any argument against is unconstitutional and infringes upon our rights. It makes sense to some people that since murder rates are so high nowadays, that banning guns would make the numbers much lower. That is certainly not the case when it comes to the United Kingdom, our close allies, when they created the Second Firearms Act of 1997. They created this law in response to the Dunblane massacre, where a man walked into an elementary school and shot dead 16 children, and one teacher before killing himself.The culprit committed these murders t with 4 handguns.People thought this act would help lower the murder rate but the results couldn t be farther from what was expected. ,the rate of intentional murderin Dunblane in 1996(the year of the Dunblane massacre) was 1.12 per 100,000 people.It raised to 1.24 in 1997, the year the Firearms Act went into effect and went even higher to 1.43 in 1998. The rate rose to a peak of 2.1 in 2002 and has fallen since to 1.23 as of 2010. These lower numbers are questionable due to the possibility of underreporting of crime by U.K. police.. In 2005, there were 765 intentional murders in the UK and most of these were committed with knives.