als can some how get guns illegally while people who are not criminals can’t. It would be bad for criminals to have guns and us to not have guns to protect ourselves against them. So I think there should be no gun control and everyone could own a gun for self-defense. Many people think teenagers with guns are very dangerous because they are small and immature and probably would run around killing people with a gun. I agree that teenagers are very curious about guns and think they are toys, but they don’t kill much people with guns. According to the study by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, teenagers who get guns from their parents don’t commit gun crimes at all; while teenagers who get guns illegally do commit crimes about 21% of the time.4 Many of the teenagers are being killed each year by guns, but not by juveniles; 90% of children under the age 12 or under being murdered and 70% of the aged 12-17 are being killed by adults out of the 2000-3000 children gun victims each year.5 Teenagers are primarily killed by gun accidents and gun accidents are increasing, but more teenagers die from accidental drowning and burns than from gun deaths (Please see accident chart in the back G.1) As I said before teenagers that have guns don’t kill many people. For example, about 186,000 teenagers carry guns to school for protection and self-defense, but less than 1% of all homicides among school children age 5-19 years old occur in school grounds or on the way to or from school.6 Also studies estimate that death at school is about 20-30 children each year which is 1/10 of the children murdered each year by parents or caretakers. So teenagers having guns and bringing guns to school is not so bad. So it is not necessary to have gun control for children sense they don’t do any bad things with guns and all they uses guns for is protection and self-defense. Thr...
