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John Edwards 1B 1/21/11 Gun Control Guns don’t kill people, but people with guns kill people. It’s not the guns that make the decision to take a life. We need to rethink the way we deal with these weapons of terror. It may require a revolution of our attitude on guns and a reform of gun control. Guns are an unnecessary evil that have come into existence just to create pain and suffering. There needs to be stricter gun control because people use them for fear, they are too easy to get, and it seems to be a common theme with guns, they kill people!

People use guns to intimidate and strike fear into the souls of other people so that they can get what they want. People use guns to take money from night clerks, restaurant cashiers, and innocent bystanders. Guns are used in gangs to take down a rival gang’s turf. Gang violence is fuelled by guns and how easily they get their hands on these guns. It’s always about who has the bigger guns when it comes to a gang fight.

It is easy for gun manufacturing companies to get around gun laws. With the development of special kits and magazines it is easier than ever to make an inspected hand gun into a fully automatic gun, like the one used on the people in Tuscon. For around two hundred dollars you can turn your single shot glock into a fully automatic handgun. There were, at one point, laws against this sort of thing, but it took the death of a nine year-old girl and others to realize that this law was a needed one. And if you do not wish to buy these kits, you can get a class three license that will allow you the ability to get any automatic gun you want. All that is required is a simple background check and you have your fully automatic handgun.

One of the biggest reasons for gun control, one that I shouldn’t have to even explain to you, is that they KILL PEOPLE! Guns are responsible for about thirty thousand deaths a year, fifty-six percent of which are suicides, and forty-four are homicides. On January eighth, a mentally unstable man killed six people and wounded thirteen in Tucson, Arizona. One of the victims that lost their life that day was a nine year old girl named Christina-Taylor Green. This young girl lost her life for simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. No amendment should be protected if it involves the death of an innocent girl. This man ran up to a meeting of a senator and others and open fired on the crowd of people. That day a man died for his wife. Dorwan Stoddard was a seventy-six year old retired construction worker that dove on his wife and was shot, saving his wife’s life. These are people that could have been spared if we had stricter gun control.

Gun control is something that we need more in this country. This country needs to have IQ tests, test that check the sanity of the people applying, and broader background checks. The people of the United States do not need Sub-machine guns or fully automatic hand guns, or any hand guns for that matter. People say that this is stripping them of their second amendment rights. This is incorrect; the second Amendment says that we have the right to form a militia or band together when the British come to invade. This is not taking away your rights, just limiting them for your own good. In conclusion Americans need a wakeup call, trade in your guns or get rid of them in any way possible.

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