Gun Control Essay 

 
One of the most well known and most hated mass shooting to date in the US 
is Columbine. The Columbine shooting is nothing to take lightly in anyway. But this is 
probably one of the most important shows of a highly debated topic in the US, gun 
control. Most guns should not be accessible to the citizens in the US, some guns 
should be banned and the others should be incredibly difficult to obtain, because 
they cause harm to others, they can harm themselves when put in the wrong hands. 
This is just one of the huge amount of mass shootings. While this takes place in 
1999 from the year after there have only been more. Now we can reload 30 rounds 
in under 1 minute compared to back then. Now not all guns should be banned but 
they should remove the sale of the majority of weapons. The only weapons that 
shouldn’t be banned is the semi-auto handguns, and they should make it incredibly 
difficult to get that weapon. 
One of the most common crimes committed by firearms is homicides and a 
very well known incident is mass shootings which both happen a lot. According to 
ProCon.com’s fact section on gun control there were “126 mass shootings from 
2000-2014”. That includes fairs and school shootings in just a 14 year span there 
was that many.Can you imagine that is an average of 9 mass shooting ​per year, 
there are only 12 months in a year. So if there is one shooting per month that 
means there are only three months where there are no shooting. In another 
article from the Illinois Council against Handgun Violence it stated that there was 
“737,360 crimes with a handgun from the years 1993-2001”. Those crime varies 
from robbery to homicides and varying casualty rates. The majority of crime 
actually happen with a firearm included so if we can eliminate that factor the 
casualties would decrease in those encounters. That is an average of around 252 
crimes per day for 8 years straight.  
One of the saddest things that happens is suicides, where people 
unfortunately give up on life and they take their own. This can happen for a 
multitude of reasons whether it is PTSD or they are just diagnosed with clinical 
depression. Now according to every town research there are approximately 22,000 
suicides that have a firearm involved per year. That is about a casualty rate of 59 
people per day. Also according to the Everytown For Gun Safety 4.6 million 
children live with a firearm that is loaded and is not locked up. With that being 
said, according to the same article it says that over 80% of child suicides happen 
with a firearm that is owned by a family member. So if we can get rid of those 
guns then it will get rid of all those unnecessary deaths. And if we don’t ban those 
weapons then we can be way more strict about having those guns. 
Now the other side of the argument of gun control keeps saying the same 
thing about the topic. One of the most common topic is that they say that we can’t 
ban the guns because it goes against the second amendment right to keep and bare 
arms. But the thing about that law is it was written 200 years ago. In that time it 
literally took 3 minutes to reload 1 bullet, now it takes about a minute to reload a 
magazine that contains 30 rounds. The people who wrote the amendment didn’t 
know how far we would go with the technology of these weapons. Another thing 
that people say about guns is “well if someone gets the weapon then something 
happens to make them snap and they harm someone, we can’t predict that.” But we 
can, if we implement a checklist to be filled out by the doctor for check-ups. This 
checklist sums up to saying whether or not the doctor thinks the patient can own a 
weapon, this checklist will happen anytime something traumatic happens. This will 
also be paired with a intensive background check this will hopefully help decrease 
the number of casualties from guns.  
With all of this being said this is why we need to ban most guns and make it 
incredibaly difficult to obtain the other weapons. It should be incredible to get 
these weapons because of all the crimes that have a fire arm involved. So if we can 
get rid of that factor then that gets rid of a lot of deaths. The other reason that 
we should get rid of the guns and make it difficult to get these weapons so we can 
lower the amount of suicides. About half of the suicides happen with a firearm so 
if we can get rid of that factor then it will lower the amount of suicides. In 
conclusion that is why we should ban most weapons and make it incredibly difficult 
to obtain the rest of the weapons.