Guns are quite possibly the most heated topic of debate in the United States of America
today. Never before has such a technologically advanced issue as firearms cut the country
into so many different factions, all fighting with each other over their respective views on
gun control. However, it is possible that the firearm industry has brought this on
themselves. As history has shown us, gun control has risen up against technological
innovations in the gun industry as a result of those innovations. In many circumstances,
the developments of this industry have been a step in the wrong direction, and the gun
control lobby has been jumping all over these wayward changes for hundreds of years.
However, sometimes the gun control lobby has hopped on a bandwagon against a
particular kind of firearm without taking into account all of the statistics out there. Many
sets of statistics sponsored by the U.S. government and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation tend to shed favor on the gun industry. But, other statistical finds throw
darts at the gun lobby, making the gun control lobby all the stronger. The gun control
issue is just as heated and as confusing as ever; and even though a paper like this is not
meant to answer all of the questions on this topic, hopefully readers will be able to find
their way through the jungle that is American society and firearms.
I am one of many people who are against gun control. I come from a family of
hunters and I am also a hunter myself, and I don't think it is right to take guns away from
some people. I know that some people shouldn't have guns, but I think that if someone
wants a gun to kill they are going to get one no matter what. But why can't America just
bow down and accept mandatory gun control? Wouldn't the streets be safer if any and all
guns in America were illegal? The fact is, Americans can't bow down to total gun control
like that which ...