In recent years nearly 35,000 people have been killed annually by guns in the United States. These deaths include 15,000 murders, 18,000 suicides, and 1,500 accidents. It is because of these statistics that many would like to ban guns altogether. But is that really in your best interest? Would it really benefit this country, or reduce the number of murders in this country? Consider the evidence in this article and you will see that guns should not be outlawed and that less gun control in necessary to preserve what the founders of this country believed in.

Guns can help prevent crime. This is a view held by many opponents to gun control. The criminals themselves agree. In Alan Gottliebs Gun Rights Fact Book , he claims that as part of a three

For this reason, many people argue, restrictive laws will not reduce crime because criminals will still have guns. And if criminals still have guns violence will continue. New York City, for example, has very tight handgun restrictions. To buy a handgun, city residents must apply to the police for a permit. Very few permits are given out. They primarily go to active duty and retired police officers, security guards and bodyguards. In addition anyone caught carrying a concealed handgun without a permit faces a felony charge and a mandatory prison sentence. Hugh LaFollette, in his article “Gun Control: The Issues” says that because of these restrictions, as of April 1991 there were only 61,497 legally owned handguns in New York City, a city of nearly 8 million people. Yet research indicates that there are at least 750,000 hand guns in the city and gun - related crime remains high. In 1989, 70 percent of the city's twenty - two hundred homicides were caused by gunfire according to LaFollette. The BATF says that 96 percent of all handguns used for criminal purposes come from outside the city. This means that criminals still obtain handguns for illicit purposes despite New York's tough laws. But should the government have the right and the power to take guns away from citizens? This will be discussed in the next section.

In this paper it was shown just how regular citizens were able to defend themselves with the use of a gun. This was because they were trained in the use of the firearm as well as the safety aspects of its use. It has been shown that criminals are afraid of citizens armed with a gun. It has been shown that arming one self with a firearm can not only be a deterrent to crime but a successful defense. It was shown that if guns were outlawed then only outlaws would have guns. It has been shown that owning and caring a gun is your constitution right as laid out in the second amendment. Some gun control proponents will try to distort these facts to hide the truth. But this is the truth. It is because of public option, fear and a misunderstanding of guns that many people feel that guns should be made illegal. But outlawing guns is not the answer. Alleviating the fear and misunderstanding about firearms is. It is only then that many people will see the benefit of the firearm. Taking guns away from law - abiding citizens while felons continue to use them is not the answer. It is your constitutional right to keep and bear arms. Clearly we have seen that outlaw guns would not be in our best interest. We have seen that doing so would not reduce the number of innocent people killed each year.

An even greater shortcoming of the Brady Bill is that it only affects legal transactions. By definition, a criminal is someone who breaks the law. Criminals have many ways to obtain weapons without going through the process mandated by the Brady Bill. Two obvious examples are theft and black market purchases. According to studies only one firearm of every six used in a crime is obtained legally. Since the passage of the Brady Bill, only four felons have been apprehended trying to purchase a firearm. When asked for a policeman's opinion of the Brady Bill in Crime and the Shacking of America: The Roots of Chaos, by Andrew Thomas, Steve Rusiecki replied: "I think it is an emotional attempt at crime reduction rather than one based on legitimate facts.” In view of the facts presented, it is obvious that the Brady Bill is not an effective crime prevention tool.

Guns also provide vulnerable women with some form of protection against rape and other violent crime. Recently, Orlando, Florida saw an increase in the number of rapes over a twelve - month period from 12.8 per 100,000 to 35.9 per100,000. Women in Orlando were afraid to go out alone, even in the daytime. Citizens of Orlando demanded that something be done.

Let us begin by examining the first amendment. It states " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishme

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