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Argumentative Essay: The Future Of Guns In America

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Think of this, twenty years in our future it’s a peaceful place guns have stopped being produced and nobody owns a single gun. Yes guns and gun licenses are a thing of the past. It has been so peaceful since firearms productions were stopped that even the police officers don’t need handguns. Ya life seems nice, no more worries about school shootings or any other kind. The air around the nation seems lighter. One day you go to a movie with your family, just a fun family outing. You go with your spouse and two children, a little boy and a little girl. You guys are having a great time until, in the middle of the movie someone stands up and starts shouting he pulls out a semiautomatic . Everyone freezes in terror as disbelief circles the room. The man pulls the trigger and rains down bullets into the crowd. You duck down to hide, hearing bodies hit the floor all around you. Trying to get down you slip and fall finding your children and partner lying dead on the floor pooling blood. …show more content…

America is changing in good ways and bad. Technology is driving us forward towards the future and some of it is scary. There are new weapons of killing and more efficient ways to make them use them. A gun can help defend a person who knows how to use it. A gun is a tool that needs to be wielded by an experienced person, the gun license helps with this. It is the document that says you passed the background check and you have taken a course to show your competence with a firearm. This stops/prevents random people from owning a gun and also only lets people with knowledge and experience with guns own them. With all of these precautions in place it shows how most people trying to take away guns are afraid because they don’t know much about them besides the stories of murders committed with them. Guns are only as evil as the people who use

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