Guns have been a hot topic in recent years all around the United States and, as always, there are opposing viewpoints. I am here to tell you that gun rights are a positive thing and they should not disappear, for many reasons.
Let me start with my favorite reason, one that tends to relate to other topics. People often say we should not judge all of one type of person based on the actions of a few. A main argument to ban guns is mass shootings, but in reality, it is a tiny percentage of gun owners, even though most shooters are not legal gun owners, that are involved in mass shootings. There are many attempted mass shootings that are stopped before they happen by legal gun owning citizens, but rarely do you hear about them from the media because that is not part of their agenda.
This leads into my next point about guns being a main type of protection. Guns are only as bad as the people whose hands they are in, that being said, wouldn’t you want the good people to have guns too?
If someone breaks into your house and is attempting to hurt you or your family, a gun is an efficient way to stop them. It is important to remember that banning guns will not stop criminals from obtaining them. They are called criminals for a reason; they break the law, so if they want guns, then they will get guns.
That leaves the good defenseless to the bad. Why would we want to give the criminals the upper hand? Many people often try to argue that police are responsible for our safety. Well that is not the case; you are responsible for your safety and you cannot always count on a cop being there because there are not enough to assign a personal protection detail to every citizen. Take protection into your own hands and take responsibility for yourself. Not to mention that a criminal is less likely to target someone who is “packing.”
Criminals may not all be the brightest, but most of them do not have a death wish. There is often a saying used when people try to blame guns for killing people and that is, “Blame the fool, not the tool.”
A gun does not have a mind of its own, it does not hate, it is simply a tool. A gun is a tool that can be used to provide safety to oneself and others. Guns are a line of self-defense and stated as so in the Constitution.
Our founding fathers saw guns to be such an important line of defense to the threats foreign and domestic that they made it the Second Amendment. We cannot blame the gun for human action. We live in America, also known as the “Free World.” How can we call ourselves a “Free World” when we limit our citizens to their own rights and protections?