ng them and was jailed for 6 or 7 months. If gun control laws were applied the same in every place he could of never have gotten the guns. This also means that criminals could have done the same thing that my friend had done, but not sell the guns but use them to do bad things. Another reason why different laws on different states are bad is that tourists don’t know the gun laws in that area and they would probably think it is the same as the state that they live in. They would be in big trouble if they did anything related to guns. So I think that if the government would want to make laws about gun control the laws should be the same everywhere and not have different laws in different places. There should not be gun control because there are law-abiding citizens that would not commit murder, robbery, or domestic violence. Only guns in hands of people that have been arrested and have a record of violence actives cause murder, robbery and domestic violence the most. There should be criminal control and not gun controls because it would be more useful. In the year 1996 the U.S. Justice Department estimated there were more than 665,000 gang members and 310,000, almost half, of these gang members have guns although gun control laws have already been established in most parts of the U.S.2 There should not be gun control because even though there is gun control criminals could still have ways of getting guns in the black market where people make guns and sell them illegally. Many people buy guns for protection and self-defense because in1856 the Supreme Court said, “Courts have ruled that the government does not have a specific duty to protect individuals.” 3 In the U.S. there are about 10 million violent crimes committed each year, and about 3.9 million times victims use guns for self-defense. So guns in the hands of good people are used for self-defense. There should be criminal control and not gun control because crimin...
