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“Guns do not kill, people kill people” When given in wrong hands, power can become a recipe for disaster. The same rule is applicable for guns.

What is Gun Control? Generally speaking, gun control is recognized as the effort to restrict or limit the production, shipment and ownership of certain guns. Over time, the issue of gun ownership has become a staple of controversy and one of the most hotly contested social issues facing Americans.

Constitution The second amendment states that people are allowed to keep and bear arms. The second amendment from The Bill of Rights grants private citizens the right to bear arms. Thus, people who stand firmly against gun control insist that no legislation, technically, should have the right to take away a citizen's guns without first repealing the amendment in question. Several statutes, such as the National Firearms Act (1934), Gun Control Act (1968) and the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (1993), dictate the law pertaining to the possession of firearms in the United States.

Basic Human Right Humans have the basic right to defend themselves, their families, and other humans. As long as evil exists, humans will have the need to defend themselves. At a minimum, one would like to have tools for defense equal to those tools in use by those that are doing evil. Taking away the ability of self-defense is taking away a basic human right. Transferring the responsibility of self-protection is an individual choice; It is not possible to transfer someone else’s rights without violating their rights unless it is the choice of the individual.

Common Sense Point # 1 : Gun ownership is a subset of private property rights. This is largely true and we think it is probably the best way for a libertarian to argue against gun control. Forget the complexity of safety, law enforcement, and tyranny. If you simply point out that it is a fundamental or natural right of the individual to not only own property, but to defend it as he or she sees fit, then you have an effective argument against gun control. If your life is in danger and a gun can save your life, then a government taking that away from you is one that has no interest in your life, liberty, or property.

Common Sense Point # 2: Crime is deviant behavior. Guns don’t kill people, people do. This is another effective argument as it highlights what most Utopian visions of society fail to see. People are not all good. All of us have evil impulses to destructive things, mostly to ourselves, but sometimes to others as well. Banning guns won’t stop evil anymore than banning umbrellas will stop the rain. A gun is an inanimate tool not deviant behavior and crime is deviant behavior not an inanimate tool. You can’t prevent deviant behavior by regulating tools because tools are incapable of behavior and the number of tools available to the world’s deviants is endless. Even if you could legislate guns out of existence, deviants could, would and have used other things that gave them a power advantage over their victims—knives, clubs, rocks or even sharp sticks—all of which are very legal and very accessible.

Common Sense Point # 3: Thugs prefer unarmed victims and avoid potentially armed citizens. Gun control doesn’t protect people from violent crime, it increases it. Every region where gun control is high, there is a higher instance of gun violence and crime in general. In regions where there are less restrictive gun laws, you’ll see lower instances of crime and gun violence. Of course, crime has more factors than just the ownership of guns, so the arguments for and against gun control based on crime statistics are fallacious in that regard. A regions cultural make-up and racial diversity plays a huge factor as well. Amazing bit of deductive reasoning isn’t it? Antigunners hope you never discover that truth on your own. Who would you rather confront, an armed citizen or an unarmed one? Where would you rather focus your life of crime? In areas where guns are outlawed or where guns are prevalent? Who would you rather prey on, the defenseless or the armed? And where is violent crime more prevalent? Washington D. C. where gun laws are strictest or Florida where gun laws are more relaxed? People also insist even if you do have gun laws it will not help control all the violence. They say there are still knives and weapons that can kill also.

Common Sense Point # 4 : Gun control would push guns into the underground black market Which allow the criminal element to The black market is, in essence, a true free market and it is unfortunate that more Americans don’t take advantage of this, besides just organized crime. Besides that, the War on Guns will end up being more disastrous than the War on Drugs as drugs are for personal use where as guns are for external use. Thugs ignore gun laws. To think that thugs who ignore laws against murder, robbery, rape and assault will, by some stretch of lunacy, obey gun control laws is the purest form of lunacy. Does anyone think that a gang planning a bank robbery will trash those plans because they would first be required to register their guns before the job went down?

Common Sense Point # 5 : Gun control is one of the first things that the greatest tyrants in history have done. Indeed, Adolph Hitler, Josef Stalin, Mao Zedong, and so many others have reached for the guns of individuals when they have taken power. This is because even if you have an army with the most advanced technology, it is no match for the sheer numbers of citizenry with standard rifles. However, one must understand that when employing this reason, you are saying that you are willing to shoot police officers who are “just following orders. ”

Common Sense Point # 6 : The government doesn’t like competition. Indeed, citizens who solve their own problems and deal with their problems on their own is what the Statists fear the most. If individuals can do things without the help of a parasitic government, the parasite withers away. When individuals own guns, they provide their own security and demonstrate the uselessness of a large-scale police force and the need for a massive national security state, which has been very profitable for a few at the expense of many in the past several decades.

Commons Sense Point #7: The Trump Card. The strongest point of all consists of a mere 27 words and is absolute in its nature. It trumps all statistics ever concocted by man and all arguments ever made! “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. ”

Common Sense Point #7: Thugs ignore gun laws. To think that thugs who ignore laws against murder, robbery, rape and assault will, by some stretch of lunacy, obey gun control laws is the purest form of lunacy. Does anyone think that a gang planning a bank robbery will trash those plans because they would first be required to register their guns before the job went down?

Common Sense Point #8: people hunting People that hunt defiantly don’t want gun laws. Because it’s their hobby they own guns and to take away their guns is to say they enjoy their hobby anymore.

Statistics -Nine of the states that have the lowest violent crime rate in the country are those that allow its people the right to carry guns. -According to some estimates, approximately 80 million homes in the U. S. own 223 million guns. Comparing USA to other countries, USA is not ‘more violent’ than other countries, and more guns does not equal more deaths: Mexico has (by far) highest rate of homicides, while having very restrictive gun laws. Rates of rape in Australia, Sweden, and New Zealand are higher than USA. Rates of robbery are higher in Belgium, Spain, Mexico, Chile, Portugal, France, England Wales than in USA. Rates of assault are higher in Scotland, Sweden, England Wales, Belgium, Israel, Germany, Finland, Chile, Luxembourg, Ireland, Netherlands, Iceland, Australia Portugal and France than the USA. Rates of burglary are higher in Denmark, New Zealand, Austria, Iceland, Sweden, Australia, England Wales, Chile, Belgium, Switzerland, Slovenia, and Northern Ireland than the USA. Rates of gun deaths are much higher in Brazil and Russia than USA, even though those two countries have less guns than USA, and more restrictive gun laws. Over the last fifty years, with only one single exception (Gabby Giffords), every single mass shooting event with more than four casualties has taken place in a place where guns were supposedly not allowed.

P. S. Pretty much like the war on drugs, arguments against and for gun control result in questions about the intent or bearing (or not bearing) arms. There are many pros and cons of gun control but the right to carry arms is granted by the Second Amendment. The question is whether it is alright and in everyone's interest to infringe on these rights to prevent acts of violence committed which will anyway go on, thanks to the black market in firearms. After all George L. Roman did say that, "I am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. “ Mahatma Gandhi, the famous political activist from India, once said, "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. " Banning guns or prohibition will not make them disappear, or make them any less dangerous. In order to protect themselves, their family, and their property, it is a legitimate right of citizens to own weapons.