Guns And Gun Restrictions Essay

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In this essay we will be discussing the issue of guns and gun restrictions. Many people have different opinions on guns. Guns are good for many reasons three of them being you can protect yourself and family you can use them to kill animals to eat also having people carry guns lowers the crime rate.
Guns are good for many things some people believe that guns are only used for killing and for no good. While yes guns kill we often don't hear about the times they save lives because people fear their gun will be taken from them as stated here. “How can that be, when guns kill almost 30,000 Americans a year? Because while we hear about the murders and accidents, we don't often hear about the crimes stopped because would-be victims showed a gun and scared criminals away. Those thwarted crimes and …show more content…

No bang, no news.” So the truth is guns actually save more lives then we here about but go under the radar because the trigger was not actually pulled or because the people who have defended them self don't want to risk their gun being confiscated. There are many stories out there about how gun laws did not allow a person to have their gun on them and then someone started robbing or shooting a place and they could do nothing but be a victim or a buy standard of what is going on where if they had their gun on them they could have possibly done something about it here is one of the stories. “ Suzanna Hupp and her parents were having lunch at Luby's cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, when a man began shooting diners with his handgun, even stopping to reload. Suzanna's parents were two of the 23 people killed. (20 more were wounded.)Suzanna owned a handgun, but because Texas law, at the time, did not permit her to carry it with her, she left it in her car. She's confident that she could have stopped the shooting spree if she had her gun. (Texas has since changed its law.)” As you can see in that story texas even changed the law

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