The Pros And Cons Of Gun Control

As shown in the the info graphic above in 1976 Washington D.C. passed a law which banned handguns and required all other firearms to be stored; either dissembled or trigger locked. The banning of handguns didn't help their murder rates at all. This clearly shows that gun control is not the way to go. A ban of firearms of all citizens will actually benefit criminals more then before. They will be the only ones with weapons, and everyone else would be easy prey for them. Defenseless due to the laws that would be imposed to initially protect them. Another problem that comes up when gun control is brought up is how can the federal government try and control all the firearms in the country.

With so many guns and the advancing technologies; a law regulating firearms would be a huge task for a very few amount of people trying to regulate all firearms in the United States. As time goes on it would become even more difficult since not a while ago the first 3-D printed gun was tested. This 3-D firearm was made out of 16 pieces, which 15 were plastic and created in the 3-D printer and 1 bought piece bought in a local hardware store which was just a nail. The government will never be able to regulate all the weapons in the United States because there are more weapons then people; and we don't even know exactly how many people are in the United States. If the government were to try and implement some sort of law like this and expect everyone who has a gun to register it they would be asking for a 100% participation from all gun owners. It is most definitely not going to happen; expecting criminals to register there guns will be just a false hope and complete failure.

In logic a country without guns would technically be a safer place to liv...

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Having the government buy back an estimated 300 million firearms from the public would be a huge failure and cost many billions of dollars. Which in the end will have a minimum effect because not all guns will be sold and new ones would surely be smuggled back in. Criminals will always get there hands on firearms if they were banned.

If you look at the prohibition it did not stop alcohol being smuggled and just created a huge underground market for alcohol. If the prohibition was a complete failure then gun control laws would just be making the same mistake. As they sayThe people who prospered during Prohibition by importing and supplying alcohol were gangsters like Al Capone. If gun control were in place, the the type of criminals we would really have to worry about would be the modern day Al Capone supplying guns.