Meh why not. I wrote a essay for English class, we had a few topics to chose from and I chose gun control. It sucks pretty bad, failed at sources and examples and w/e, but it got a A cause my English teacher is stupid. Anyways, here it is, try not to rip it apart and flame me to much. As you can tell, I kinda gave up after the second paragraph cause it met the requirements for length.
Since the creation of the so called “Gun Free Zones” the vast majority of mass shootings have occurred in these areas. That though brings us to Gun Controls, what is it? The advocates of it say it is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals. This is obviously not true, as those who are criminals have already decided to break the laws. What Gun Control really is, is the blatant violation of our rights. It is the removal of our, the basic law abiding citizens right to provide for his or her own self defense, the inability to protect against an oppressive government, and the removal of the ability to provide for our own food through hunting in time of need.
Back when our country was founded and the constitution ratified, back in 1789, our fathers of this country put a certain phrase in our Bill of Rights. It said “the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That was written into the Constitution of the United States of America for many reason, all of them important, one of the reasons was for self defense. When our country was founded, we were the police. There weren’t enough law enforcement officers to do much good. Their job was, and still is, to “keep the peace”. The police can not protect us at all times of the day and in all places. That means, if someone intends to commit “serious bodily harm” to you or another person, you can legally shoot or even kill them if necessary. So what does gun control do to help you with that? The answer is nothing, it hurts you. The common law abiding citizen will be forced to turn in his weapons and his or her self defense. The “great equalizer” which can bring an 18 year old male and an 88 year old grandmother of 10 to the same level is gone. Now there is 10 kids whose grandmother is missing because some politician in Washington thought taking guns away from law abiding citizens was some how going to reduce crime. On the HBO show Bull Shit, they ran a story about a Texas Congresswoman, Susanna Hop, who was still a regular citizen back in 1991 when she and her parents went to a local restaurant in Killen Texas. A mad man drove his truck through the window and methodically began shooting people. Her father rushed the man in a vain attempt to take him out, he was cut down. Her mother stayed with her father, and when the gun man came back around, he calmly walked up to her, put the gun to her head, and pulled the trigger. Because back then, you weren’t allowed to carry a gun, Susanna was forced to leave her gun in her car. 22 people and the gunman died that day. Now, as all this is happening, the criminals are all getting more guns. Also, on the same episode of the same show, they had a previous gang member, you know what he said? He said that he can walk around his “hood” in LA with an AK47 hanging on his back and not one single person would call the cops on him. The reason for this is because it is pointless. The cops could come, take that gun away, but it wouldn’t matter. The next day, he could buy 10 of them from an illegal dealer. These guns aren’t being sold by law abiding citizens, they are being sold by criminals, these guns are coming from outside the United States. Gun Control just hurts the common citizen; the criminal isn’t going to turn in his weapons, what does he or she care about the law.
After all that, you may be thinking a bigger and stronger police force is the answer, this couldn’t be further from the truth. One of the many other important reasons the Second Amendment to the Constitution has that famous clause embedded in it is because the founding fathers feared that the Federal Government would get to powerful. As proven over the centuries, human nature is to always want more. No matter it land, money, food, or power. Thomas Jefferson once told us that to be a true democracy and to keep the government in check we should have an armed rebellion every 30 years. Thankfully that hasn’t happened, we have so far not had any extreme problems with our government taking over our way of life, no one wishes for violence but the means to keep our freedoms is very important.
Since people first came to the New World, guns have been at our side, they have been used for things such as defense and hunting. When the white man started traveling west, from the eastern parts of what is not the East Coast, he kept his gun with him, it brought him food, it brought him self reliance. Families could live out in the wilderness, they had their own means of producing food, whether it was killed or grown or scavenged. Even today roughly 1/7th of the population of the United States hunt or have hunting licenses. They can, if need be, live off themselves, in the wild, just like the woodsmen of the previous 3 centuries.\
Some say that Gun Free Zones help reduce gun crime, think about this: Columbine is a gun free zone, so was the Amish School house in Pennsylvania, so was Virginia Tech, the list could go on virtually for ever. These were all places where the common law abiding citizen was not allowed to carry a weapon, these were also places where only the criminals brought their weapons. Awhile ago, at Pearl High School in Mississippi, there was a shooting rampage taking place, the gun man had already killed 2 and wounded others, the Vice Principle ran out to his car, where he retrieved his legally owned Colt .45 pistol and brought the rampage to an end. At a school dance in PA, the dance hall owner was forced to retrieve his weapon from his house a block away and bring the killing to a stop only after a teacher was killed and 2 students wounded. Makes you wonder what would of happened if these law abiding citizens would have been allowed to keep their weapons with them. How many lives would have been saved…
Gun Control; the proponents of it say it is keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, this is obviously not true, as to be a criminal, they have already decided to break the law. What is it that is going to make criminals turn in their weapons? Nothing. What Gun Control really is, is the removal of a law abiding citizen to provide protection to themselves and others. What Gun Control really is, is the removal of the ability to say NO to an oppressive government. What Gun Control really is, is the removal of the ability for a law abiding citizen to gain food in a time of need. Let all that sink in, and then decide, what really is the right thing to do? Leave the innocents unarmed and at the mercy of others, or allow them to say NO to oppressors?
Last edited by Commie Killer (2008-03-19 05:14:23)
