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Satire Essay On Gun Control

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464,033 deaths, in fourteen years, and only 1.3% of these were caused by a shooter. Guns, the thing we use to hunt and to protect our families are being threatened to have taken away and we must stand against it. People who have been through background checks, are mentally stable, and law abiding citizens, without past gun violations, have deserved the right to own a weapon, be it for hunting or for their own protection. Many members of my family own guns, not to go and kill people, but to hunt, just as Americans have done for hundreds of years and to give ourselves some peace in knowing we can fight back. First of all to explain, some people believe that guns should be taken away from non-officials, including law abiding citizens, because …show more content…

Gun control laws do not deter crime; gun ownership deters crime. How would we fix this issue? Simply by having more strict background checks and not just giving guns to anyone. According to Gallup, Over 90% of the public supports background checks for all gun purchases, yet the measure failed to pass the U.S. Senate. Also, saying that the gun is the reason is a person is dead is like saying a pen misspelled a word, or that it was the football’s fault it didn’t land in the receiver's arms. According to gun owners.org, twice as many children die from playing football than being killed by a gun. So at that point would you like to ban football …show more content…

How would the government take every single gun away from every single person who doesn’t have a badge? Additionally the gun-homicide rate decreases as the gun ownership increases. In 1994, the gun-homicide rate was 7 deaths per 100,000 people, in the last few years that has dropped to only 3.6. CNSnews.com states that the last six years have been safer that the twenty before that. Also, National Rifle Association (NRA) Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre believes that “the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In fact the rate of purchase goes up after mass shootings as well as when more laws are put in place, and decrease when the people are given more liberty in having a

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