Gun Control: Proposal

Gun Control

            Guns have been a problem in the United States for a number of years. People are dying and killing themselves everyday by using a gun. Gun control has always been a big debate in America; people do not like to talk about it though. Should we as citizens have our right to bear arms taken away? I believe that as citizens we should have the right to do or carry what we want to but I think there should be limits on it. Not every citizen of the United States is in the proper state to be carrying a gun around.

            Gun control is a very important issue that is not talked about enough. There are several reasons to why we should have gun control. In the U.S. you can get a gun as long as you do not have a criminal back ground but what about the people who buy guns that are not in the right mental state. Doing a back ground check is not enough when buying a gun I think that the person should have to take some kind of psychiatric test to prove that they are right in the head. If a person that has a mental issue buys a gun then goes and kills a person they most likely will not be charged. The judge would say they were not in the right state of mind and be put into a mental hospital just to be let out onto the streets in a few years when they are given the okay. This is just as bad as letting a criminal have a gun.

            I am not saying that nobody should have a gun but that we need to have tighter restrictions on guns. You should not be allowed to buy more then a certain number of guns. There are reasons to have guns and there are people who have guns just to have them. Hunting would be one reason why a person should have gun. Hunting is a part of society that we need to keep animals from reproducing to standards that the land cannot handle. If we were able to control who has a gun and for what reasons it would save many lives.

            Over all gun control is an issue that needs to be addressed. I feel that many people are scared to confront it because it has to do with taking away some peoples 2^nd amendment right but sometimes you cannot have all your rights you were born with. I am for gun control to stop some of the killings that happen. I believe that everyone should have the right to live and not be scared that someone might shoot him or her one-day. There needs to be stricter laws set when buying guns so they do not get in the hands of the wrong people. By setting stricter gun control laws it will help keep guns off the everyday streets and people dying from guns.