11ENN The American Dream : America land of freedom fight controversy with control

America land of freedom fight controversy with gun control.

Gun control in the United States has been reported as being out of control, although many Americans believe that all the intention over this issue is an overreaction. The Guardian Web News page reads “ Homicides by fire arms is 2.7% per 100,000 of the population.” Gun control doesn’t need to be stricter as the death toll is low, they are used as a source of protection and it’s the people that kill not the guns.

The first point is that gun control doesn’t need to be stricter as the death toll is low for the amount of guns they own. Hub pages 2016 (JMiller17) reads that America had 30,000 deaths which is 27,000 times more than the countries of France, Australia, Japan and a few smaller countries which is equal to the population of America. But considering there are 235 million guns that are owned 300,000 deaths only accounts for just 0.000383% of the murders. Taking away their guns is only going to bring havoc to the streets as guns will be sold illegally on the black markets or in the streets.

My second point, Americas gun control doesn’t need to be stricter they just need to start focussing on the positives instead of the negatives. Americagunfacts.com has proven that over 200,000 women have used a gun to defend themselves from sexual abuse. Taking away what women use as there protection would leave them defenceless as they can still come in contact with people who have knives and their fists. If we take away women's only protection against violent men then we could continue to see increase in abuse and violence against women which will lead to a lot of problems in society homeless women, kids growing up without fathers and kids thinking violence in the home is normal.

Lastly, in America people are always complaining about how high the death rates are. There are legally 235,000,000 owned firearms in the United States Of America and there population is 323,173,171 and around 9000 people were killed by a fire arm, this means guns used for murder account for just 0.000383% of their population and that is considered to be quite a low percentage. Guns have been around for years and they have never brought this up in the past before so why now? It’s the kids of this generations thinking its “cool” you can't blame guns for peoples violence issues and stupidity, “Your genetics load the gun. Your lifestyle pulls the trigger. It’s the people who pull the trigger back” this quote elucidates that it's not the guns fault it’s the person who pulls the triggers .