Gun control - Argumentative Essay

Guns – Are they a weapon or safety tools? Should Guns be banned?
According to some people the world is peaceful compare to ancient times. However, nowadays life is worse than before due to the fact that deadly technologies such as guns are spreading rapidly in the society. Even though people are granted freedom in our society, it does not mean use of guns is not limited. There are many countries which will not allow the use or selling of guns in their society. The topic of gun control is debated lately everyday in our government body, to oppose it or to support the sale of guns in our society. Even though both sides have their strong arguments in order to support their statements, I truly believe in the ban of guns due to many reasons.

 First of all, people, especially the ones who own at least one gun, say that the use of guns actually decreases the number of crimes. Based on some statistics, this statement is true, however what we should see is the number of victims not the number of the crimes. The number of crimes is decreasing, but the crimes that are still spreading are consuming many victims for example accidental gun shots. In fact, the increasing ease to guns actually brings many victims, more teens and children die from gun wounds. We can see from some statistic that the number of victims are influenced by the use of gun, and we can conclude that the spreading use of guns actually brings more victims.

 

 Secondly, as we all know, guns are designed to shoot whether it is to shoot a living thing or a non-living thing does not matter, but it surely is a tool to destroy something. Well, yes it is true that the one that kills is the user and guns do not kill people, because guns are just inanimate tools, however, guns are the tools that triggers people to kill. Firearms also allow people to kill from a certain distance and it enable to kill more than one living thing at a time. Whenever people see a gun, they think that this is the tool to defend themselves, which is true but on the other hand defending ourselves can be done other ways also.

 Finally, guns are not primary needs for people who do not have any relation to the military. Guns are not made for the hands of a normal person, because if they fall in to the wrong hands, unnecessary things could happen. From my point of view, the ones that need to use guns are people who are already trained and they use it for something with a good aim such as the military. In unwanted situations people do not think clearly, panic,and get frighten, and in this kind of situation, people with a gun will surely pull the trigger. For people like ourselves it is better to learn something else, there are many better ways to defend ourselves like using martial arts and we do not need to 'kill' the threat.

 In conclusion, people only see the decreasing number of crimes, while what they really need to see is the increasing number of victims. Although the number of crimes is reducing with more access to guns, but the number of victims that died because of gun wounds is increasing. Guns are also a tool to 'destroy' something, and even though people who are killing people, guns are the ones which allow people to kill by using them. Guns are not a primary need for us, so it does not matter even if they are banned and we can live without them. To sum up, it is better to ban guns because they are not necessary and guns only bring more victims.