Gun Control
Gun control should be limited by the United States government. It has been provided as a constitutional right since the birth of our nation. It has been told by our founding fathers, "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed".
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While guns should not be considered as the first option to end a bad situation, they should always be a last resort to ensure quality of life for innocent victims. This has been made a statement by one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson. "One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them"
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Gun trigger locks are devices placed on guns which prevent the use of the gun. The trigger lock does not allow any movement in the trigger until the lock has been removed. In 1996, even though there were around 80 million people owning guns, there were only 44 accidental gun deaths for children under age 10, or about 0.0001%, showing trigger locks are being effectively used.
The right to bear arms offers self defense for those who may be an innocent victim. If the ability to possess a firearm is banned, law abiding citizens will be left defenseless against a criminal who will carry a gun regardless of the legality.
Many citizens against passing concealed carry or other liberal gun laws often use the controversial point of school shootings in relation to the
availability to a gun. Currently one of every two households in America have been found to have
accessibility to a firearm. It has been researched and discovered "Less that 1% of all homicides among school-aged children (5-19 years of age) occur in or around school grounds or on the way to and from school." (CDC,
Facts About Violence Among Youth and Violence in Schools. May 21, 1998). While considering a third of student's time is spent going, leaving or at school, 1% is an
impressively low percentage.
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