Explain Why Guns Should Be Banned In The United States

Do you think guns should be banned in the United States? There are many reasons why our society needs guns, our world is full of crazy people and they need to be able to protect themselves. Even if a gun ban was put into place, it wouldn’t stop criminals from owning them and killing people. The United States needs to allow their citizens to carry guns to protect themselves and their families. People should be required to take safety classes to purchase a gun.
A gun ban wouldn’t decrease the amount of crime. According to Ellen Grace Jones, “Gun murders rose by 19% and armed robberies by 69% after a gun ban was introduced in 1997” in the U.S. This shows that banning guns isn’t going to reduce crime; in fact, it could increase it. Gangs and cartels

feed off of crime, so even if the guns were banned they would still be able to get their hands on them no matter what the law was. Mexico also has restrictive guns laws but according to Kit Daniels “Over 160,000 people have been murdered in the drug war since 2007.” So why should the United States ban guns if it’s not working for other countries?
There is no doubt that the United States of America should allow people to own guns, people need to be able to protect themselves.

Without guns, people are assaulted daily by criminals and have no way to defend themselves. Having a gun makes a person better to protect their self and their family. Even the Constitution states that people have the right to bear arms, so the United States would be violating that if they made guns illegal. Our first president George Washington once said, “Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence…” This shows that Americans need firearms because they're our form of protection and making them illegal violates the constitution. People should be required to take safety classes before purchasing a firearm because people can get hurt if they don’t know how to use them properly. The majority of gun crimes in America are involving gangsters shooting out other gangsters. An average gun owner never uses their gun to commit a crime. This means that people should have to take classes and other courses to own guns legally. According to Ammoland, “Most states issue permits to carry concealed handguns. Men and women who get permits take gun safety classes, and have extensive criminal background checks. These people make everyone a little, wherever they may be.” With that being said people do need to be able to protect themselves but they also need to know what

they’re doing so they don’t get hurt trying to do it.
Guns are very serious, they’re not toys. The United States does not need to ban guns because they do help save lives. According to President Donald Trump, “Guns used 2.5 million times a year in self-defense.” This means that each year, firearms are used more than 80 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to take lives. Banning guns would not lower crime rate, it may actually increase it. Criminals would still use guns to kill people without even hesitating. Americans need guns to protect themselves, a criminal can easily come up to an innocent person and attack them for no reason and that person has no form of protection at all because guns would be illegal. People need to be able to protect their families as well but they do need to take a gun safety class so they know what they’re doing with a firearm. Without the classes people could kill themselves trying to protect themselves or their families.