Argumentative Essay On Gun Control

434 Words1 Page

it and, at a long term, violence will no longer exists in the world. The third argument to support gun control is

Viewpoint 2 One of the author against gun control is Jeff Cooper, the creator of Advanced Military CombatPistol Course and the father of modern pistol technique, according to National Rifle Association (NRA). In his book “Art of the Rifle”, he said “The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.” In other words, for him, gun should not be controlled, should not be restricted to several people because, violence should be used to stop violence. As a matter of fact, in daily …show more content…

But, the thing with violence is that it is already this “superior mean”. So, we can plainly see that violence can’t be stopped by nothing else except violence itself. For this reason, Cooper is against gun control and in this similar way of fighting violence by using violence, Balai Lama says “If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun”[ http://www.wiseoldsayings.com/gun-control-quotes/]. Another argument against gun control is the fact that it infringes the right of self-defense. According to the National Rifle Association (NRA), guns are used for self-defense 2.5 million times a year [ NRA, "Chris Cox's NRA Armed Citizen," www.nra.org/armedcitizen (accessed Oct. 6, 2014) ]. Through this statistic, it is important to deduce that weapons are used by the population, to defend and protect themselves against dangerous people or use it to face difficult situations and so, gun laws would make it more difficult for people to protect their homes and families. Moreover, since security, police cannot totally protect

Open Document