Many people choose to express their opinon on gun laws. While everyone is entitled to their opinion, most of these opinions are based on emotion and are not based on fact. Recent events in America have many liberal people clamoring for more gun laws. They believe that guns should be taken away from citizens and they hope that this will keep them safe from harm. What they fail to realize is that most gun violence is committed by criminals with illegal guns. They fail to see that these criminals do not pay attention to laws. For this reason, it is obvious that more laws will not protect people from gun violence.
The citizens of America
that enjoy having guns point to the Second Amendment to the Constitution, that guarantees them the right to bear arms. Some anti-gun folks say that this only applies to muskets and the type of weaponry that was available during the day that the laws were created. They say that the founding fathers could not foresee assault weapons and other weaponry. They fail to realize that this amendment was created so that the citizens of the nation could protect themselves from tyranny. These founding fathers had recently overthrown a tyrannical government and knew a day would come when the government they were creating would need to be overthrown. For this reason, they explicitly stated that the citizens should be allowed to have arms in order to fight and defend themselves.
Another interesting fact about this debate is that the states with the strictest gun laws seem to have the most gun violence. The state of Vermont has very lax gun laws and has very little gun violence. You can even conceal and carry a gun in Vermont without a permit. Of course, if most people own guns and you never know who may be carrying a gun, you are less likely to commit crimes. Hopefully, the other states will follow the lead of Vermont and allow their citizens this basic right.
