"Guns don't kill people, people kill people." It has been said millions of times by too many people to quote. For almost as long as guns have been around gun control has been a major issue throughout the world. As we look back on the past we find that gun control doesn't really help reduce crime. Another down side of gun control is that if the government takes away the right to own weapons then they will start to think they can take other rights away.
             With every new anti gun law passed the crime rate in the United States escalates. For example if you look at the state of Texas or any other state where pro gun laws were recently passed, that allow non felon citizens to purchase and carry a handgun, you can see that crime rates have gone down in these states. It appears that if criminals feel threatened, because their victims may have a gun, they are less likely to attack people. This example shows how gun laws that restrict guns are ineffective because when a law that allows guns is passed crime rates don't go up but actually go down when more people have guns.
             "Gun laws fail because they do not address the issue. The issue is not possession of firearms, but misuse of firearms. We cannot expect criminals to abide by gun laws when they have already shown a disregard for law and order by their criminal activity. The only people ever affected by gun laws are peaceful, law abiding citizens, who never abuse their firearms right. Recent research is finding gun laws do not reduce the amount of violent crime in our society. Gun laws have succeeded only in disarming the law abiding and making the criminals' work environment safer I submit that our concern should be to make the environment for honest citizens, and this, gun laws have failed to do." Thomas Jefferson predicted these same results when he said, "Laws that forbid the Carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined no...