Topic > Gun Control and Self-Defense - 582

Gun control is probably one of the most questionable concerns of the Constitution. There are many scenarios where you can see the good in pro gun control and also other scenarios where anti gun control is good. Gun control should not be a plan that the United States government should adopt because there are many cases where a firearm will determine your life or death. And the right to carry a firearm is like the right to protect our freedom and to defend ourselves. Firearms are used defensively about 2.5 million times per year, more than four times more than criminal uses. This equates to 2,575 lives protected for every life lost to a firearm. (SAF) The people most worried about this problem are those who have lost someone close to them such as a father, a mother or even children. Especially in America, because American children are more at risk from guns than children in any other industrialized nation. In one year, firearms killed no children in Japan, 19 in Britain, 57 in Germany, 109 in France, 153 in Canada and 5,285 in the United States. (NEA) The right to be...