National Rifle Association: Pros And Cons

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background to be checked. So the ultimate problem are the guns distributed through the loophole. Unfortunately, politicians who support liberty on guns are not willing to see how dangerous firearms have become.
The National Rifle Association or more known as the NRA is an association that each year wins millions of dollars by the Gun Industry. This Association was made to protect the second amendment and the right to own a gun. Each year millions of Americans pay to be in that association and they make sure to protect the second amendment. What it gets controversial is that the NRA believes that if there's more guns the country is safer. And at the same time if there's more guns it's more dangerous. The probability of getting killed by a gun it's always higher if there's more guns. The NRA uses their revenue to create …show more content…

A study in 1986 “concluded that a gun in the home is 43 times more likely to be involved in the death of a household member than it is to slay an attacker” (Lott, 2000). So, a counter argument often used to bury this particular argument is that the Second Amendment is practiced as defense. However, in the majority of the cases, a firearm in case of an intruder or assault, it is only fired once and is rarely fatal. Most of the time, the firearm is used to scare assailants and not to kill. Particularly in the United States, states in the south have more accidental death casualties, with numbers going as high as a thousand casualties. In the period of 2005 to 2013, there was an approximate total of 3,800 victims, and more than half, were under the age of 25. It is safe to conclude that accidental injuries are common where guns are kept as safe control (Dueling Over Gun Control, 1998). So more gun-control laws should be made to prevent the deaths of children and young adults. A negligent person with a firearm is a danger to even those he or she

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