Argumentative Essay On Guns And Violence

Guns and Violence

“One man with a gun can control a hundred without one” (Vladimir Lenin). It is not surprising to feel unsafe at times, but is it right to murder the threat? Ongoing crimes in America have raised a question to many families about owning a gun for their family’s safety and self-defense. “A December 1993 Gallup poll indicated that 49% of U.S households contained a gun, and 31% of the U.S adults personally owned a gun” (Kleck, 1). The majority of people gave a primary reason of self-defense for keeping these firearms. Paying $150 for the protection can be a lot cheaper than hiring security. Keeping a gun at home can buy the victim at least a fighting chance for saving themselves in the case of an attack. The majority of gun owners kept their household guns loaded, and 34% of handguns were loaded and unlocked, ready for immediate use (Kleck, 1). That makes sense because a thief would not knock

In fact, 43% of households with children own a gun (Campaign, 1). It may be possible that a child could mistake a real gun with a toy gun and accidently shoot a friend or a family member in a game. A child’s play can cost someone a life. “There's a loaded gun in one in every ten households with children, and a gun that's left unlocked and just "hidden away" in one in every eight family homes” (Campaign, 1). For instance, there was a popular news incident in Baltimore; a loaded gun was hidden under a sofa and a kid found it and thought it as a toy gun. A 4-year-old boy was absolutely unaware about the risks of a real gun and he fatally shot himself. “It would require only a tiny fraction of the one million home defensive gun uses to involve a life saved due to quick access to a gun to counterbalance the subset of twenty-eight deaths of preadolescent children in handgun accidents that might have been caused by the gun being stored in the ready status.”