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Gun Control Persuasive Speech

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“You won’t get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There’s only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don’t actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time.” – Ronald Regan By the time you’re reading this, it’ll have been a week since a community college in Oregon has had spilled blood by yet another psychopathic killer, and another community has been torn by lost loved ones. My strongest prayers and condolences are with them, but if there’s one thing our country now wants to bring more justice to than the murderers themselves, it’s their weapons. Forget Wal-Mart and skip by your local gun show. The murderers of tomorrow will not be found wearing orange vests …show more content…

As to how many deaths resulted from leaders who believed in an unarmed people for a safer country under the USSR, Mao’s China, etc. I’ll leave you to research… Why do we want the same all of a sudden, especially given the more laws we have for the law-abiding citizen concerning guns, the more deaths result? Underground gangs and politicians run a great deal of Chicago, one of the strictest cities in America when it comes to gun control. There are said to be at least 68,000 gang members and four times the number of police officers. Many of Chicago’s politicians solicit the underhanded support of gang members in their campaigns, accepting laundered contributions from them, hiring their members and tipping them off about upcoming raids by the police, so they can get off Scot-free. Why do we see little if anything in the media reported about these gangs? They’re out there. The majority of murders in the cities with the worst homicide rates are gang-related. It’s not always possible to be certain whether a killing was gang-related. The majority of homicide victims in city after city have been found to have criminal

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