standing army as much as they feared foreign invaders. As James Madison explained in the federalist Papers, the primary check on the government tyranny and an abusive army was citizens with their own arms. This still is a factor in today world, even though the armed forces have more weapons than the armed citizens do. In an off note the Revolutionary War was sparked by the British attempt to confiscate the patriots’ privately owned arms at Lexington and Concord. Thus the notion that the founding fathers thought that the government had a no right to disarm peaceable citizens. The fact the founding fathers fought for the right to keep and bear arms. Firearms are used in about 12 percent of violent crimes; it is unlikely that any kind of gun control legislation could remove more than a handful of those firearms from felons’ hands. There is no evidence that the disarmed criminals using them would not then turn to other weapons. All the gun control laws that are passed by the government will also not normally affect criminals. For the reason that they today get there weapons from unconventional sources. The only thing that gun control bills really do is disarmament the peaceful people who own guns. In doing so, it takes away from that the normal citizen being able to protect its self from criminals.There are many studies been done about why criminals acquire handguns. Most of these studied brought up the fact that they own them for self-defense, because they associate with other criminals and are likely to be victims. In a survey was given to imprisoned felons, 54 percent said protection was a very important reason for getting a handgun and 26 percent said that it was some what important. Only 25 percent said that the reason that they own handguns was to commit crime. Over the years, police and other expert have changed their recommendations about how to deal with criminals. In early and middle 70’s, they adv...
