The debate over gun control is one of the most highly controversial issues of our society today. Perhaps the reason for this is because it deals with a fundamental issue. Gun restrictions and bans on some or all guns calls for a significant change to the social and constitutional systems that we live in today. Gun control is based on the incorrect concept that ordinary citizens are too clumsy and ill tempered to be trusted with weapons. An increase in gun control is not in the best interest of our society, it just provides the people with a false sense of security. Throughout history governments have used guns as a scapegoat to their problems with violent crime. Guns are not the problems when it comes to our society's problem with crime the people are the problem. Those in favor and against gun control have countless reasons for their stances. The argument against gun control is the most credible; therefore, gun control should not be administered in the United States of Ameri!
             To fully understand the reasons behind the gun control efforts, one must look at the history of our country, and the role firearms played in it. The Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America makes firearm ownership legal in this country. There were good reasons for this freedom, reasons that persist today. Firearms in the new world were used initially for hunting and at times for self-defense. However, when the colonists felt that the burden of British oppression was too much for them to bear, the picked up their personal firearms and went to war. The founding fathers of this country understood that an armed populace was instrumental in fighting off oppression, and they made the right to keep and bear arms a constitutionally guaranteed right.
             Gun control advocates, those who favor gun control, argue that the more guns there are, the more crime there will be. But there is no solid statistical correlation between gun ownersh...