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Why Is Gun Control Bad

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Gun control There are a lot of different opinions on gun control. Some people think we should have gun control and strongly support it. I for one am not one of those people. I strongly believe that gun control would not work. Guns are not weapons they are tools used to protect your self, it is not the fault of a good samaritan that an unlawful samaritan uses them in the wrong ways. Guns are not the problem it is the people that get a hold of them. A gun can not fire a bullet its self just like a car can not drive its self. Gun control is all around a bad idea firstly people will always find ways to get guns. There are millions of ways to get guns illegally and usually the people getting them illegally are the ones that are planning on harming others. There is really no way to control guns. Putting gun control would do more damage than good you would be hurting the decent people that actually follow the law on getting them the correct way, they get their background checks and register there guns. Some people think putting gun control would reduce gun violence. But I feel like it would do quit the opposite. Putting gun control would really only affect good samaritans. And taking there guns would only hurt them and leave them with no way to defend themselves. …show more content…

Sadly to say like schools. The Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting happened on December 14, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut, when 20 year old Adam Lanza fatally shot 20 children, as well as six adult. If one person in the school would have had a gun that number could have been reduced and the shooter could have been stopped sooner. But once again a school is a gun free zones so the good civilians that followed that law ended up being harmed. But who did not follow that rule? A civilian that was going in to do harm to others, that was doing something illegal. Which just goes to show that you'd be hurting good

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