Gun control
Presently our nation is faced with quite a few controversial issues. One of which I feel particularly strongly about, is gun control. I do not support the notion of stronger gun control in America. Gun control breeches our constitutional rights as citizens, leaves us defenseless against criminals and government, and increases crime rate. Gun control is based on the misguided conception that the average American is too clumsy and ill-tempered to be trusted with weapons. Only through the blatant abrogation of explicit constitutional rights is gun control even possible. It must be enforced with such violations of individual rights as intrusive search and seizure. It most severely victimizes those who most need weapons for self-defense, such as minorities and women. How would a 5-day waiting period help a stalking victim? How would banning affordable firearms protect the poor from neighborhood criminals? Would prohibiting females from carrying a gun aid in their escape from a rapist? Would keeping your gun unloaded and locked up save you from a home invader? Would keeping you from owning semiautomatic firearms stop a criminal from getting any gun he wants? What about limiting how many guns you can buy in a month? These are
Klemann handed over his wallet with $35 in it, but the handyman wanted more. government may seem benign, but we call all agree that right now there are laws that the majority of people don't agree to yet they have to be followed. 5 million; Uganda--300,000; Guatemala--100,000; other Latin American countries--thousands. Living in the safety and comfort of present-day America, many people are naive about the dark side of human nature, but those who study history are not. " In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson also stated: "We hold these truths to be Self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The Soviet Union--20 million; China--20 milion; Nazi Germany--13 million; Cambodia--1 to 2 million; Turkey--1 to 1. But a government is simply a collection of people, some good, some bad, who may disobey or change the laws of the country. (Hibbits, 2002) We also need to consider the constitutional right for citizens to bear arms. Fearing he was about to be conned, Klemann left his house and drove around the neighborhood for a while hoping the man would leave. This is because criminals don't obey gun control or any other kind of laws leaving law abiding citizens to be rendered defenseless. Statistics show gun control costs lives, as evidenced by cities which enforce near total bans on firearms ownership. Since the cost of arresting someone for a serious offense is well over $2,000, the total cost in arrests alone would amount to $5 billion a year.
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