urt will accept as a stop and frisk. Polsby argues, "While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny, and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws their way" (1of 11). Gun control laws infringe on the American's freedom to the right "to keep and bear arms". The law abiding citizens of America should have their right without it being a hassle to exercise it. If criminals know that someone may be carrying a gun, they will not bother trying to mug them, on the other hand, tougher gun legislation would make it more difficult for innocent people to protect themselves. Those looking to protect themselves by purchasing a gun usually become frustrated with how expensive it is to purchase them or with how long the background check takes and they wind up deciding against purchasing a gun. "It is easy to count the bodies of those who have been killed or wounded with guns, but not easy to count the people who have avoided harm because they had access to weapons," states Polsby (2 of 11). If the dead victims had bought a gun to protect themselves, they may still be alive today. Gun control stops the ordinary citizen from purchasing a gun, but protects the common criminal. Underage buyers and other delinquents can purchase mass quantities of weapons through "dummy buyers" that have clean backgrounds. So if a burglar enters a house with full intention to maim or kill, the innocent victim, who can't buy a gun to protect his family because he was arrested for drunk driving seven years ago, is simply a victim of a law that supports black market trade. Registered guns are not the ones that will be killing our children. The unregistered ones are owned by murderers, rapists, and thieves. Nan Desuka, a gun control advocate, states that "Those who want strict control of handguns- for me that means the outlawing of handguns, except to the police and related service ...
