Essay - Background and Thesis. the Ownership of Guns by the Public...

Background and Thesis.

The ownership of guns by the public has been a topic ***** much needed debates for quite some time now. Various organizations ***** support groups have ***** in action for the pro or anti views on whe*****r a citizen should be allowed to own and keep a gun ********** his person ***** his property. Many of the people who own guns do so for hunting, self-defense or f***** their collecting pleasure. But there have been innumerous cases in which the use the gun has resulted in death of another per*****n. The issue of ***** control pertains ***** those laws ***** regulations that would result in a limited number of people buy*****g the ***** and thus ***** the distribution of guns so that *****y do not fall into the wrong hands.

Pro-gunners disagree on the limitations that gun control would put on ***** lifestyle. Some people believe it should be ab*****lute, and any ***** all arms should ***** legal. Some pro-*****ners and declare that heavy mil*****ary equipment such as tanks, bazookas, etc., should be illegal, while reasonable controls on items such as automatic machine guns are all right. At the same ***** many ***** *****lieve ***** even owning a simple handgun should be illegal and strict regulatory control ***** be enacted when anyone wants to purchase a firearm. Guns, in my op*****ion, should be legal for buying and people should not have to go through a great deal ***** hassle in order to acquire a simple gun.

II. Opposition: Guns kill people.

***** should ***** more regularly ***** c*****fully monitored. ***** act of buying a gun ***** be made into a legal process where***** a person had to go through various checks and careful scrutiny before he or she is allowed to buy and own a *****. There should be strict restrictions on ***** types ***** kinds of we*****pons that a person should ***** allowed to buy and own. The problem with guns ***** fairly straightforward: they make it easy to kill or injure a person. In Jeffrey A. Roth's Firearms and Violence (February 1994), he points out the obvious dangers: Approximately 60 percent ***** all murder victims in the United States in 1989 (about 12,000 *****) were *****ed ***** *****s. According to estimates, firearm attacks *****d ***** 70,000 victims, some of *****m were left permanently disabled. In 1985 (the latest year for ***** data are available), ***** cost of shootings--either by others, ***** self-inflicted wounds, or in accidents--was estimated to be more than $14 billion nationwide for medical care, long-term disability, ***** premature death. In rob*****ries and assaults, ***** are far more likely to die ***** the perpetrator is armed with a gun than when he or she has ano*****r weapon or is unarmed. An accidental *****shot is also a lethal disposition.

Obviously, there are different types of gun murder. ********** is 1st degree, premeditated murder, in which case the gun just made it easier, but the killer probably would ***** killed anyway, given ***** he had