Explain Why Guns Should Not Be Banned

Should guns be banned? This debate has gone on for several years. I believe that guns should not be banned in all honesty. Guns being outlawed can cause more deaths involving them, can be retrieved in other illegal ways, and there are way more things that kill people other than guns. Why take guns away now?

Let me ask you a question. Have you ever heard about all the overdoses on heroin, crack or any other illegal narcotic? Well, these drugs have been illegal since 1914 and the overdoses/substance abuse is still going on. Why would making the ownership of guns illegal be any different? People would get guns illegally from black markets, deal them, or smuggle them from other countries. Some people would even learn how to make their own guns.

There are knives, drugs, and other dangerous things that could be used to harm someone. More people could possibly get hurt this way. People could find more ways to sneak drugs into food and drinks. People would also resort more to bombs instead of the knives or drugs. Say a student was going to shoot up the school but possession of guns is illegal. He/She would most likely use a bomb and kill more people than a gun would. The bomb could destroy the whole school and kill all the students and staff, including his/herself depending on how they do it.

I can still see why people want guns banned. They’re dangerous and cause incidents where people get hurt. I know this, everyone else does too. People do get hurt/die if a gun malfunctions or if they get shot. This still isn’t enough reason to get guns banned. The reasoning is that this would still happen if they were illegal, but would cause more deaths than before.

Like I said in the previous paragraph, there could be more deaths than before. There is a huge reason I think this. People would most likely resort to dealing guns like drugs. Someone doesn’t hold up their side of the deal, the other person isn’t happy and said person who didn’t pay gets hurt or killed. It’s worse to make guns illegal if it turns out anything like that is going to happen, and it’s a huge