Gun control has become a popular topics nowadays since the gun shooting event happened in Las Vegas. Some citizens blamed governments for not being responsible to keep Americans safe. Therefore the new gun control law is published. However, the new gun control law caused a huge wave of discussion because people split into two groups: does new gun control law make Americans safer?
My opinion is that new gun control law does not make Americans safer. First of all, guns are not the only tools victims use to kill people. If someone wants to kill somebody, they can use anything as a tool to kill. It is only the guns have more dangerous than the other because it can kill a lot of people in a short amount of time. One of the bad influence I can think about is that victims start using tools that are more daily used such as truck. Recently, a truck hitting event has happened in New York, 8 people died in the attack. In my opinion, the government can prohibit guns but not trucks, because people use them everyday. Although guns have more threats, the gun shooting attack does not happen very often in the past few years. If there are more restrictions of buying guns, the victims will find out more ways that we cannot think about to begin the attack. More importantly, most victims do not buy guns through legal method. Most victims buy guns from the black market, which American government has absolutely no way to make it disappear because it is such a big organization, larger than we can imagine.
In addition, the new gun control law takes away citizens’ ability to defense for themselves in some ways because some of them do not have guns to fight back. In the shooting attack in San Antonio, Texas. The victim might be killed by someone in the church who has gun with them. They are saved because they have guns to defense for themselves so that they can save themselves. Therefore the new gun control law actually reduces the safety because it does not influence the victims at all, the only thing the law does is taking people’s safety away.
I am not saying that guns are doing no good to Americans, but rather the laws are causing opposite effects in United States as what we want to. In another word, I think the new gun control law does not give citizens safety. It makes the victims more dangerous. Therefore the gun control does not make Americans safe. We should focus more on the person who puts citizens in danger but not the tools they use to do bad things.
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