oughout the world the U.S. is the leader the world in gun deaths, with about 34,000 gun deaths in the U.S. in 1996.7 Many of the gun deaths are suicides and accidents and leaves out of a few being homicides. According to the FBI estimate the homicide rate is beginning to fall from 7.0 to 6.2 per 10,000 in 1998.8 This tells us that not many gun deaths are homicides. (Please see gun death rate chart on last page G.2). So as I said before gun control is not necessary because suicides can be done in different ways, if there were no guns people can use some other weapons or ways to commit suicide. Accident can be prevented if gun makers make the guns more difficult to fire and have more safety functions. So the only major issue left is homicide, which does not account for many of the gun deaths, and which is now decreasing. Even though guns cause many deaths, they also save many lives too. Guns saved about 3.9 million peoples lives each year by self-defense. Only guns in the hands of criminals are bad and guns in the hands of regular people are for protection. So I think that everyone has the right to own a gun for their own protection and there should be no gun control laws. ...
