Pros And Cons Of Gun Control Essay

Debates over gun control，a topic related to the security of the whole nation, have never stopped. Both advocates and opponents have solid grounds to support their arguments.

The advantages of gun control, as claimed by advocates, are as follows：

The first and most important: By curbing access by criminals, juveniles and other high risk individuals, it can efficiently reduce the crime rate, especially violent crimes. Robbers equipped with guns are becoming more dangerous and threatening. Guns make them do the plunders more easily, even commit some crimes which are impossible without guns. So in a nation or area without gun control, there will be more robberies. Piracy off the coast of Somalia is a good example: People in Somalia can acquire various kinds of guns so easily that, being driven by poverty, they began to arm themselves and attack the passing ships. How can they hijack ships without guns?

Secondly, gun control can save a lot innocent lives. According to a survey, there are around thirty thousand persons killed by gunshot every year

For example, Some drug dealers in Myanmar are so powerful that they have their own armed forces to confront police even government troops.

On the other side, there are also several disadvantages claimed by opponents:

Gun control deprives citizens' right to protect themselves by guns, especially in areas with poor public security.

Without guns, lives will be harder for some persons who make a living by hunting. Various primiary tribes, which are following their traditional ways of living, still exist and are scattered all around the world. Guns will make their hunting easier

Some Guns are handed down by their owners' hero ancestors and have become the honor of their families. Gun control may cause them lose the most precious thing of their