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There are many angles to the gun control issue, mainly, who is being killed by the guns. The victims of guns are mostly the violent killing each other on the streets. Gang members killing gang members. The next largest group of people killed by guns are innocent people nearby as by standers, or people who are victimized in a robbery, or simply someone who pissed off someone else who happened to have a gun. Then, the greatest population of victims is children who are accidently shot sneaking back into their own homes or children who play with improperly hidden loaded guns and accidently shoot and kill themselves. From my own experience I know of more people shot accidently than of people shot deliberately. I only know of two people actually murdered, but I know of four people accidentally shot.
Another detrimental aspect of having guns in our society is the ease of robbery associated with having a gun. It is difficult to rob someone without having a gun, but it is tremendously easy to rob someone while carrying a gun. Thus, robberies would decrease if guns were not permitted. Also, if guns were illegal, and only the ciminally minded had guns, it then would be a greater crime to merely have one, which would lead to longer jail sentences of those that merely possess them.
As for the benefits of hand guns. One liberal claimed that if everyone of legal age carried a handgun, then no one would ever be able to commit an armed robbery or be able to shoot an innocent person, because the moment that one aggressive criminal pulls a gun, ten innocent law abiding citizens could protect themselves and innocent people with a handgun.
This is evident in the cases when a jewelry store owner in the south kept a handgun behind the register and in the course of eight years used it four times to protect himself and his store. Another case when a young black female had a carries permit and brought her gun to her convenience store job, used on a male who used a weapon to rob her and her store, yet she was able to shot and disable the robber. In these cases guns protect the innocent and harm the criminal.
The other apparent benefit is that the people of the United States at least some of them feel safer to have weapons at their disposal in case an organized militia or foreign army should surprise attack our land, we as a people could organize ourselves to put up at least a guerilla defense.
On the one hand we have the ability to organize our territory, the ability of the innocent to defend against the criminal, but on the other hand we have the accidental or deliberate killing of the innocent or the accidentaly killing of children. It seems to be that we as a people are electing to protect the innocent and choicing to be able to keep our territory safe, even though some are accidentaly getting killed.
Another detrimental aspect of having guns in our society is the ease of robbery associated with having a gun. It is difficult to rob someone without having a gun, but it is tremendously easy to rob someone while carrying a gun. Thus, robberies would decrease if guns were not permitted. Also, if guns were illegal, and only the ciminally minded had guns, it then would be a greater crime to merely have one, which would lead to longer jail sentences of those that merely possess them.
As for the benefits of hand guns. One liberal claimed that if everyone of legal age carried a handgun, then no one would ever be able to commit an armed robbery or be able to shoot an innocent person, because the moment that one aggressive criminal pulls a gun, ten innocent law abiding citizens could protect themselves and innocent people with a handgun.
This is evident in the cases when a jewelry store owner in the south kept a handgun behind the register and in the course of eight years used it four times to protect himself and his store. Another case when a young black female had a carries permit and brought her gun to her convenience store job, used on a male who used a weapon to rob her and her store, yet she was able to shot and disable the robber. In these cases guns protect the innocent and harm the criminal.
The other apparent benefit is that the people of the United States at least some of them feel safer to have weapons at their disposal in case an organized militia or foreign army should surprise attack our land, we as a people could organize ourselves to put up at least a guerilla defense.
On the one hand we have the ability to organize our territory, the ability of the innocent to defend against the criminal, but on the other hand we have the accidental or deliberate killing of the innocent or the accidentaly killing of children. It seems to be that we as a people are electing to protect the innocent and choicing to be able to keep our territory safe, even though some are accidentaly getting killed.