Persuasive Essay On Gun Safety

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Taking Away Guns Could Endanger Our Safety Gun control has a widespread controversial topic relating to self defense and gang violence. Gang violence has proven to be a huge problem across all cities. Withdrawing guns from law abiding citizens would cause individuals to lose self protection. Gangs will always obtain guns because they constantly engage in illegal activities and have no problem breaking the laws to get any guns. Removing guns from citizens means removing safety. Gangs would continue to participate in malicious activities and people will have no protection to stop them. People will be safer if we promote gun safety and self defense. Gun control has a negative effect on promoting self defense and reducing gang violence. Self defense plays an important role for all citizens safety. Taking away guns will jeopardize people's right to safety. Criminals would crawl the streets and people could not do anything to stop or protect themselves. According to Kirn Walter,¨The unarmed fear the armed, but the armed are disposed to fear the better armed.¨ This means that the people who are unarmed are afraid of …show more content…
¨ 100% of cities with populations greater than or equal to 250,000 reported gang activity in 2001.¨(Geer) According to author Michael Geer. Taking guns away only empowers the gangs who will always be able to obtain guns. ¨Gangs get guns as a result of criminal activity. Burglaries, theft, selling drugs to buy guns on the street, all manner of illegally obtaining guns. You and me? Federally licensed firearms dealer, background check, traceable funds, paperwork, etc. The criminal element will always get access because they have no regard for Law. You and I do our best to obey laws because we dare not entertain the consequences of breaking the law.¨(Geer) Another statement made by Geer. Defensive act of promoting self defense effectively stops