Argumentative Essay: Gun Control In America

Sitting in a cold, damp theatre in Cleveland, Ohio, surrounded on all sides by grey walls, dim lights light the stairway to the only exit. The movie begins, abruptly halted by a crackle of gunfire and the wails of those who stand in the paths of the bullets. Suddenly, the lone door to the theatre swings open, and five men armed to the teeth burst into the theatre, huddling the mass of people into one corner of the room. The men plan to execute every last person in the theatre one by one. Three of the trapped men draw their own weapons overpowering the attackers. Three people died in this shooting. If these heroes did not possess their weapons, every last person would have been slaughtered. Gun control defies personal freedom, implementation, and increases crime. The implementation of gun control defies basic United States amendment rights. The U.S. Bill of rights states in its second amendment, “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.” Many people interpret this different ways. Guns are a necessary evil to preserve all of the rights Americans hold so dearly.

An estimated 37% of Americans own guns (Desilver). Experts estimate there are around 310,000,000 guns in circulation in the United States (Ingraham). How does the government possibly remove all of these weapons? No one really knows. How do you force everyone to give up their guns without using violence? The US debt as of December 7th, 2015 is $18,778,524,828,382 (US Debt Clock). This being said, studies by The Weekly Standard show gun control laws cost upwards of 4.5 billion dollars per year to implement. The United States cannot afford their budget without the burden of gun control, but with the added economic toll of gun control, the US would shrink further into the black hole of their