A third
reason why we should not ban guns is that it ultimately punishes law-abiding
citizens who would lose their right to own guns and their ability to protect
themselves.
Banning
guns would only hurt law abiding citizens because several countries that have
done it are way worse off in terms of crime than the United States. An example
of this is Australia. Australia banned most semi and pump action guns as well
as severely restricted handguns in response to the Port Arthur massacre. One
other things was licensing of all gun owners, including that self-defense was
not a reason to obtain a license. Because people have had most self-defense
weapons banned and the remaining guns they have cannot be used for defense, the
people of Australia are defenseless. The website Nation master allows you to
compare all kinds of statistics of other countries and I found this. Australia
has in terms of population size, twice as many robbery victims, twice as many
assault victims, twice as many burglaries, and three times as many rape victims
as the United States ("Australian vs United States Crime Stats
Compared." NationMaster.com. NationMaster, n.d. Web. 10 Nov. 2016.). Not
only that, but after the gun ban; Port Arthur has not been the only massive
loss of life in Australia. The gun ban did not deter people who wished to do
evil because there have been eleven massacres in Australia since the gun ban.
It has been a mixture of Shootings (Monash University Shooting, 2011 Hectorville siege, Hunt
family murders, Logan shooting, Sydney
Siege, and the Ingleburn Shooting), stabbing and melee attacks (Lin family murders
and Cairns child), and arson attacks (Churchill
Fire and Quakers Hill Nursing Home Fire), so
it proves that the law does not stop people who wish to do others harm. This
shows that you are much safer in a country that you can defend yourself in.
It is
also clear that limiting the size of gun magazines will hurt and endanger
law-abiding citizens. In the article "A Ban On Assault Weapons Would Not
Reduce Crime" edited by Noel Merino, it was brought up that "While a police officer can carry extra
magazines on his duty belt, and have
a rifle or shotgun in his patrol car, and call for back-up, a private citizen
attacked in a parking lot, or at home in the middle of the night, will probably
have only the magazine within the firearm. No one should be arbitrarily limited
in the number of rounds he or she can have for
self-defense."(ic.galegroup.com, Merino).
Not only that it would hurt law-abiding citizens who use guns
for defense; gun bans also affect hunters, target shooters, and collectors.
Bans that go as far as Australia's would ban semi and Pump action shotguns;
guns that many Americans, including myself use for hunting and target shooting.
Strict gun laws and bans only hurt the innocent and do nothing to criminals
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