Gun Rights

To define "firearms", Just the guns and all ammunition. Heavy artillery and weapons of war is for another debate. I have a lot to talk about with limited space. Now, Lets begin. Guns should not be regulated for four reasons; personal preservation, The Inefficiency of gun laws, And defense from a tyrannical government. Personal Preservation According to John Locke, We have the right to life(1). This means we the people have the right to protect our life through any means necessary. This includes using guns to do so. First, I must make clear that many people believe that guns are the root of our self destruction, This is false. If we look into it, When guns are taken from the hands of both criminals and law-abiding citizens, Criminals will move to the next best thing of sharp objects, And the crime rate will rise. London has created this scene, Which made their crime rate to rise above New York"s. Let's take a look(2)(3). The crime rate has been rising for the past few years. Sadiq Khan recently banned knives. Let"s take a look at Kennesaw, Georgia(4). As reported, There has only been one murder in six years in Kennesaw, While Chicago, Illinois had 11 people die because of guns in one weekend. The difference is Kennesaw requires every head of household to own a gun, And Chicago banned guns in the 1980"s. Now that the fact that more guns inspire less crime has been stated, Statistics show that guns are used more times to save lives than to take them(5) and are the best means of self protection. If guns are more regulated than they already are in the America, We"ll have even less means of protection and criminals will still have guns illegally. You need to protect yourself during a home invasion as well, They might be there to do harm. If guns are removed from the scene, And the invader is a 250lb man, It should be impossible to make it out safely. A can protect you and get you out of a dangerous situation. Guns have been using to protect property and self in around half a million to 3 million times a year(6). Areas where citizens cannot defend themselves are in gun-free zones. Mass shootings and most murders happen in gun-free zones where the assailant won't be stopped until someone with a gun (the police) stops them. In one of the latest shootings, The shooter paused for an extended amount of time to make a post and he still wasn"t stopped because no one else had a gun(7). Only a good person with a gun can stop a bad person with a gun is true and it happens all the time(8). Inefficiency of Gun Laws Gun laws are inefficient because no matter how many laws are in place, Crime will not decrease, And violent crime by gun will only rise. Even if guns were completely banned, There is no effective way to confiscate all of the guns in all of America. Criminals will still have firearms while law-abiding citizens will be defenseless. Making guns illegal will drive the gun market underground making them accessible to only criminals. Two more ways guns are accessible to criminals are under the counter purchases and theft. Defense Against a Tyrannical Government This is where the point of not regulating the purchase of firearms becomes essential. When Hitler, Stalin, And multiple other dictators came into power, The first thing they did was confiscate all of the firearms. This happened because the citizens had no means of protection against the government. At this point in time, We the people are vulnerable to being overthrown because the government has restricted the most effective firearms from the public. Many people might say and think the 2nd amendment was created for hunting, In reality, It was put in place to protect the rest of the amendments if they were ever ignored and gave we the people the right to keep a well regulated militia, Being necessary to the security of a free state. This means that the states can form a large group of non-professional soldiers comprised of volunteers against the government in order to preserve their freedom. In 2012, The Bundy family enacted their 2nd amendment when the government tried to seize a portion of their property(9). Out of room, A few things were left out. Sources are in the comments! This concludes my case. Over to you, Thoht