Gun Control

             Gun Control
             Gun control is wrong for many reasons. For one, it is against what the Constitution says. Another reason would be there is many myths that surround gun control. Those are mostly lies. They will be expressed along with some others in this paper. Gun control is not going to do anything for the people in the United States. The issue of gun control is against the constitution and the rights of people.
             The Constitution has gun control in it in the Second Amendment. The main part says," the right of the people to keep and bear arms, that right shall not be infringed" (Ross). "What the Second Amendment means is that all people have the right to have a gun (Dolan 29). So, if there were gun control then what would be happening would be against the constitution because the constitution also " prohibits the federal government from eliminating state militias or interfering with state gun control laws"(Ross). So the constitution clearly does protect against gun control. If it did not, it would not be an Amendment all of its own.
             There are many myths and lies that surround gun control. The first is, "the proliferation of guns in this country is responsible for an increase in the violent crime rate" (Otero). But a truth is, that if so many people would not have guns, which could make crime higher since people would not have the power to protect themselves. Just because there are more guns in this country does not mean they are an attribute to the crime rate. And the real truth is that " 99% of our legal gun owners do not commit crimes with them" (Otero). Another fact is that " the fear of crime causes people to obtain guns" (McKenna 197). So a reason to the proliferation of guns is because many people are afraid so they obtain a gun to be safe. The second myth related to gun control is...

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