FREE ESSAY ON HAND GUNS MUST GO

HAND GUNS MUST GO

Handguns Must Go
People own hand guns for many reasons. Some keep handguns for protection; others collect
them as a hobby. There is a substantial amount of people in America that own handguns for
one specific reason, to commit crimes. Usually they are committing a crime just by having
a gun in their possession. The person is breaking current laws anyways; making tougher
gun control laws will not change the fact that they are committing a crime. How can guns
be kept away from criminals? By taking away their guns, and stopping them from getting
replacements. Guns are an easy to use, low cost killing device. One pull of a trigger and
a person can intentionally or unintentionally take the life of another. The only way to
stop violent crimes committed with the use of guns is to have a complete band on handguns
and automatic weapons, and stop the production of any further except for police use. 
First, handguns are deadly devices that can easily cause thousands of accidental deaths a
year. To be exact "Guns annually accidentally kill three thousand Americans a year"
(Desuka 422). Some of these guns that accidentally kill are in a home because they are
collected as a hobby. Collecting guns is a dangerous hobby that can have a disastrous
outcome. For the same reasons the government does not allow a person to collect nuclear
bombs they should not let people collect handguns. Just because a nuclear bomb would kill
thousands of people if accidentally set off, and a gun usually only kills one does not
mean the government should allow people to collect handguns and automatic weapons.
Moreover, guns that accidentally kill are in a house for protection. With regard to
burglaries, "90 percent of America's burglaries are committed when no one is home"
(Desuka 422). In the ten percent of burglaries that people are at home during,
threatening a robber with a gun puts the victim more at risk of a violent attack than
doing nothing would do. Taking guns out of households would lower the chances of them
being a cause of an accidental death or injury.
Next, if handguns were outlawed the murder rate would decrease. "Sixty percent of all
murders are caused by guns, and handguns are involved in more than seventy percent of
theses" (Desuka 422). Police would need to have a massive crackdown on criminals in order
to take their handguns away. If production of handguns was stopped, and police continued
to take away handguns, it would become increasingly harder to find guns. The amount of
criminals with guns would decrease, and so would the amount of deaths and injuries caused
by guns. In addition, killing would become harder for murderers and escaping would become
easier for would be victims. Without guns drive by shootings would be nearly impossible.
No longer could a person just pull a trigger, fire an automatic weapon, and take off in a
speeding car.
Last, the Second Amendment in America's Bill of Rights is outdated. The amendment states
this: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the
right of the people to bear arms shall not be infringed." This was written right after
America had just broken away from Great Britain. The Second Amendment was written so that
if a tyrannical government emerged in America, Americans would have a way of fighting
back. Americans still had Great Britain's past oppression on their minds, and did not
want America to resemble the tyrannical aspects of Britain. In addition, guns were
primarily used as hunting devices, and not to murder. The Revolutionary War had just been
won though the use of militias armed with their guns primarily used for hunting. Guns
were kept in each household to hunt for food. Today, Those who still use guns to hunt for
food could still use hunting riffles. The framers of the constitution had no idea of the
technological advances that would exist in the twenty-first century changing guns into a
device capable of killing several people with the push of a trigger.
Tougher gun control laws will not stop criminals from using handguns. Most are not
carrying weapons legally anyways. Not allowing handguns and automatic weapons to be made
for the use of any person other than the police is the only way to stop criminals form
having guns. 
Bibliography
Works Cited
Desuka, Nan. "Why Hand Guns Must Be Outlawed." Current issues and Enduring Questions
Fifth Edition. Ed. Sylvan Barnet., and Hugo Bedau. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
421-424.