Guns Should Be Banned Persuasive Essay

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Its cold, shiny and deadly. No it is not my heart, its guns. The media may display the weapon as cool however guns should not be played with because they are weapons that can leave one dead or seriously injured. There are those who feel that the only solution to feel protected is to have even more guns in the U.S. The question is, who are people protecting themselves from exactly? As comedian Jim Jefferies mentioned in one of his skits on gun control, does one really have that many enemies that one needs to be armed? Yes, the second amendment states that citizens have the right to bare arms, but there are those who take advantage of the amendment. As a result a handful of those who abuse the the opportunity are the reason for massive shootings that have occurred in the U.S. Other times there is irony when purchasing a fire-arm in hopes of protecting oneself. Despite all the reasons …show more content…

In Australia in 1993 there was a call to ban guns all over the country, since the decision there has been a great difference in injuries or deaths involving fire-arms. Auerbach explains that since the banning, “the gun homicide rate in Australia dropped by half after it enacted gun-control legislation in the mid-1990s”. If Australia was able to drop the rate in homicide, why can’t the US do it as well? Nicholas Kristof’s article “Some Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals” posted on the New York Times, “since 1970, more Americans have died from guns than all the Americans who died in wars going back to the American Revolution”. America needs to take a step back and realize that freedom is good but having a safer society is much better. If in 50 years that many people have been tragically killed because of a gun shot, America needs to wake up and see the issue that is happening in

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