[Week XI] Argumentative essay- Gun Control

Should Guns be banned?

Nowadays, some people think that the world is quite peaceful compared to the ages when there are still kingdoms that always fought in wars in order to expand each of their territory, people had to obey what ever the king said, and many nations are still fought to gain their freedom. However, this time is actually more furious than before due to the fact that deadly technologies such firearms are spreading rapidly in the society. Although it is true that people get their freedom, but it does not mean that the use of guns is not limited, that is why not every nation allow the use of firearms in the society. For example, Australia allow their people to use gun, but the use of guns must have a logical reason such as hunting and target shooting, but self-defense is not acceptable to be counted as a reason for Australia to give the license of owning or using a firearm. On the other hand, there are also nations that do not permit people outside the military to use guns such as China, and there are also nations like the European union that adopted gun control laws to prevent the wide spread of guns. The matter of guns control is still debated by the side which support the use of firearms and the other side which oppose it. Even though both sides have good arguments to support their statements I think it is better to ban the use of guns because of the following reasons.

First of all, people ,especially the ones who own at least one gun, said that the use of guns actually decrease the number of crimes. Based on statistics, this statement is true, however what we should see is the number of victims not the number of the crimes. The number of victims of one crime is not the same with other criminal cases. For example, case A resulting 10 dead victims and only one victim from case B. The number of crime is decreasing, but the crimes that are still spreading are consuming many victims. In fact, the increasing number of access to guns actually brings many victim, more teens and children die from gun wounds. During a year, 5000 teen and children died from gun wounds in the USA, and in Great Britain, where gun ownership is very restricted, 19 teens and children died from gun wounds. We can see from the statistic below that the number of victims is influenced by the use of gun, and we can conclude that the spreading use of guns actually brings more victim.

Secondly, as we all know, guns are designed to shoot whether it is to shoot a living thing or a non-living thing does not matter, but it surely is a tool to destroy something. Well, yes it is true that the one that kills is the user and guns do not kill people, because guns are just dead tools, however, guns are the tools that trigers people to kill. Firearms also allow people to kill from a certain distance and it enable to kill more than one living thing in a time. When ever people see a gun, they think that this is the tool to defend themselves, and by defending means by shooting on the threat.

Finally, guns are not primary needs for people who do not have any relation to the military. Guns are not made for hands of amateurs, because if it falls to the wrong hands, unnecessary things could happen. From my point of view, the ones that need to use guns are people who are already trained and they use it for something with a good aim such as the military. In unwanted situation amateur people do not think clearly, panic,and frighten, and in this kind of situation, people with a gun will surely pull the trigger. For people like ourselves it is better to learn something else, there are many better ways to defend ourselves like using martial arts and we do not need to 'kill' the threat.

In conclusion, people only see the decreasing number of crimes, while what they really need to see is the increasing number of victims. Although the number of crime is reducing with more access to guns, but the number of victims that died because of gun wounds is increasing. Guns also a tool to 'destroy' something, and even though people who are killing people, guns are the ones which triggered people to kill by using it. Guns are not a primary needs for us, so it does not matter even if it is ban and we can live without it. To sum up, it is better to ban guns because it is not necessary and guns only bring more victims.