Persuasive Essay On Gun Control

Gun control is one of the most popular disputed topics in the United States right now. The government is trying to regulate how they are sold and what we do with them. We are a constitutional republic which means our government has to follow the constitution no matter what. It is plainly stated that we have the right to bear arms, and shouldn't that be the case for everyone? Gun laws should not be changed or adjusted in the United states, people depend on them for protection and maybe even a source of food. Yes gun violence is an issue, but adding more laws and regulations will not help. There will always be some way around the laws and people who use guns poorly.
"One idea is ‘red flag’ legislation that would enact a procedure for temporarily taking guns away from people struggling with a threatening mental health crisis.", (Alice Shea, 9&10 News) this is just one way they are trying to control who gets to use firearms or not. People with mental illnesses need protection just as much as we do, just because they are sick does not mean they shouldn't have the same rights as everyone else. More often anger is the cause of a mass shooting and not a mental illness. We cannot put unfair laws on these people for something they cannot control.

Putting more regulations on guns will not help the situation, things like this are inevitable.

“As the French terrorist attacks proved, gun control doesn't work. Worse civilian disarmament leaves innocent people defenseless against killers.”,(Robert Farago). As other countries have shown, gun control is not the way to help the issue. Their will always be a way to find weapons illegally, if someone has plans to kill, what's the problem with breaking any other of the laws to do so. Also adding more restrictions will make it harder for innocent people to get weapons to protect themselves when the people who have the guns cannot protect

them.
In forty states it is legal for people to carry concealed weapons and in those states there is no increase in shoot-outs or gun violence compared to the states where it is illegal. Why take away our protection if we know it will not help, it will just leave us unprotected. “Furthermore, thousands of citizens have been able to save their own lives with firearms because a gun was available.”(Stephen E. Wright). I think that if we don't have the ability to buy guns and use them to protect ourselves we aren't really safe. The law will always be broken, that is something we cannot change, it should not mean that people who just want to stay safe shouldn't have the weapons and protections needed.
Gun regulations should not be amended, we require guns to protect ourselves. If they seize our weapons how will we protect ourselves. The government will not always be there to protect us when we are in our homes or out on the streets. Also not allowing only certain people to have weapons is not fair, we are all equal and all deserve to be safe. Gun control will not help anyways, other countries have tried and it has not worked. It would be pointless to leave us defenseless when guns can be acquired illegally and innocent people will not be able to protect themselves.