Gun Control

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Whenever some terrible act of violence occurs such as the horrible Columbine Shooting, people start looking for answers and pointing fingers. They want to put the blame on something saying, “It was the parents fault,” or, “It is television and the Internet’s fault,” but the blame is most often put on an inanimate object that does only what the person operating it tells it to do. The Gun. In the next few minutes one should realize that it is not the gun’s fault and more gun control laws
are not the answer. Gun control violates rights given to us by the Second Amendment, guns have proven to be extremely effective in deterring crimes and protecting private property, gun control
does not work in controlling violence, and gun control goes against everything the founders of this country stood for. Gun control violates the rights that the founders of this country shed their blood for. Our constitution is the rights that the framers of this country put together because they felt it to be necessary for a strong nation. In it the Second Amendment states, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. One would think that the men who wrote the Constitution knew and understood the importance of allowing a free people to have the right to keep and bear arms. Some would say that today’s well regulated militia was the National Guard, but even if that was true the Second Amendment still protects individuals rights to keep and bear arms. As Thomas Jefferson so emphatically put it, “No free man should ever be disbarred the use of arms.” Thomas Jefferson, being a huge supporter of the right to bear arms, also said, “The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.” Jefferson also said, “The strongest reason for the People to retain the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is, as a last resort, ...