This website describes an outline for the gun-control argument, in which it states why guns will continue to be bought into the possession of American citizens. Therefore, merely suggesting that they are anti-gun control because they believe "gun control cannot work; it cannot achieve its stated goal of curtailing gun production and ownership." Furthermore, this clearly demonstrates that they think by having gun control it will cause more disruption than it will solve and this is apparent by the fact they say "there is one way in which gun control works: in favor of the criminal." They believe it works in favour of the criminal because they think it will allow wider opportunities for criminals to take action as their victims will likely be unarmed, which means they are unable to defend themselves in the way they can if they carry a weapon, whereas the criminal is likely to obtain a gun from the black market.
In addition this website suggests that they are in favour of keeping guns on the market to buy because it reduced gun crime and violence in that it stopped people from creating mass shootings as the law allowed citizens to carry a weapon, which means there is a chance that citizens can simply stop a criminal by using their gun in order to prevent a massacre.
However, in retrospect to this there are people that believe in pro-gun control because they think the situation has got into a global issue that has a negative impact as it allows crime to take place by holding a weapon.
This website expands on the point that some people are pro-gun control because they believe some citizens need training in how to take proper care of the weapons and equipment surrounding it as well as how to handle a gun correctly: "Why can't the United States have a grown-up, rational discussion about reasonable gun control measures." This therefore, suggests that citizens want more explanations as to how the government and law enforcements are planning on taking control of this particular issue that put lives in dangerous situations.
Moreover, even though this websites expresses the view that there needs to be some control it also states that they also believe guns are good to have as it can stop killings; "Guns don't kill people: people kill people." This statement represents the fact by allowing people to carry guns around in public gives them the opportunity to kill someone because it enables them to have the free will to do as they please such as shooting someone with a gun and that gun will only work with a person there to control it.
Thus it is for this reason that I believe America need to make the laws that allow citizens to buy guns stricter and the police force and government need to crack down on the criminals that are using guns in ways that create tragic events. However, I do think that at the moment America's crime rate has decreased by the use of handheld guns and this is presented by various statistics, which therefore suggests it may not necessarily be a bad thing as long as they are used in appropriate ways such as on a firing range and for self defence on your property.
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