Positive Effects of Guns
Guns provide self-defense for civilians. According to Jarret B. Wollstein, “if firearms increased violence and crime, the crime rate should have increased throughout the 1980s, while the national stock of privately owned handguns increased by more than a million units in every year of the decade. It did not”. Korean merchants defended their stores with firearms while other stores without firearms burned to the ground. Prohibition of guns will make it more difficult for you to defend yourself and your family from predators. Gun prohibition will increase police assaults and murders of innocent civilians. Guns provide many excellent uses. Some hand guns are used to start big races. Riflery uses guns as well. Guns are in some sports or hobbies that people like to enjoy. Some people are just fans of collecting guns. It isn’t a crime to collect guns. Guns provide one of the most used forms of protection. Twelve years ago, when a holdup man in Dallas tried to rob a bank, he got a deadly surprise. No less than two bank customers and one teller pulled out guns and shot him dead. In Los Angeles, many neighborhoods were protected from rampaging mobs only by residents blockading their streets and brandishing guns. If guns had been illegal, their homes would have been looted and burned, and many would have been raped or killed. In Florida, forcible rapes sharply declined in Orlando and other cities after police trained women to use guns. In Los Angeles, many neighborhoods were protected from rampaging mobs only by residents blockading their streets and brandishing guns. If guns had been illegal, their homes would have been looted and burned, and many would have been raped or killed. If an armed criminal attacks you on the street or in your home, you cannot afford to wait 30 minutes, 20 minutes or even 10 minutes for police to arrive-assuming you even get the chance to call police and they respond. Ten minutes is more than enough time for a thug to rob you, rape you, shoot you, or cripple you for life. If the government takes away your guns, you are at the criminal's mercy. Gun control laws will only make our streets safer for violent criminals.