Guns

Guns

Gun bans are very simple in theory, just take everyone’s guns, but the results are drastic. Removing all guns from the American Citizens hands will have effects on many aspects of life. This simple plan proposed countless times by countless politicians will make many people angry and others glad. This is great in theory, but the real life consequences will outweigh the benefits.
There are some benefits acquired by banning guns. For instance, if all guns were to be banned in the United States, then some of the simple, very preventable deaths could be prevented. For example, a child is left at home and finds a gun in his father’s dresser drawer. The child accidently discharges the gun and fatally wounds himself. This accident would be easily preventable; simply remove the culprit, the firearm. “The reason, plain and simple, is guns. We own more guns per capita than any other high-income country” (Olsen). For another example, a teenager is having trouble in high school with a bully and decides to take the pistol that’s in his house and brought it to school to solve his problem. If there were no guns in citizen’s houses, there would be no more school shootings; plain and simple.

Handguns lead to may crimes. “Hand guns have been shown to lead to crimes more frequently than rifles or shotguns.”(Olsen). They can be easily concealed and brought to the nearest convenience store for some quick cash. Handguns also prove to be the biggest crime inducing guns in the cities because of their availability and small size. In Washington D. C. they banned all handguns and required all other firearms to be disassembled within city limits in hopes to quell the enormous amount of crime there. To the legislators believed that the removal of all guns would decrease the crime rate drastically. Considering that most crimes are made with a gun in hand or the person who commits the crime has a gun in hand, this is a very logical solution.

Furthermore, the removal of guns would save...