of panic aboutchildren€ (Kopel 38). Mr. Kopel is Director of the Second Amendment Project at theIndependence Institute. Children are not in any danger that cannot be prevented with thecorrect educative measures.€œAssault weapons€, if banned, will not help to reduce gun violence. Despite the scary-looking, military-style features, the €œassault weapons€ are nomore lethal than hundreds of legal firearms. First of all, the definition of an €œassaultweapon€ is not distinct and if they were to be nationally banned no one would knowwhat an €œassault weapon€ is and what a €œregular€ firearm is. Giving thename €œassault weapon€ is similar to giving red vehicles with speedometers that gobeyond one hundred miles per hour the name €œdeath cars€ because these are saidto be the favored vehicles of drunk and reckless drivers. €œAssault weapons€ areor were surprisingly attributed to less than one quarter of one percent of violent crimes inNew Jersey. A police officer has a better chance of encountering an escaped tiger fromthe local zoo than confronting an €œassault weapon€. Gun control should not take place. The constitution prohibits it, common sensewhen it comes to protection invalidates it, many statistics prove it, and any reasonableperson when confronted with the facts will disagree with it. Guns are not health hazards,nor dangers to children, nor preventable with hassling bills and restrictions. The manydifferences in types of guns do not give reason to ban these guns called €œAssaultWeapons€. The second amendment should end the argument to the whole guncontrol debate, and maybe in a few years another analysis of it will. Or maybe gun controlactivists, instead of trying to prevent the ownership of guns, which deter crime, shouldfocus their energy and effort into a direct...
