Gun Right Should be Banned

April 16, 2007, a terrible tragedy happened in Virginia Tech University. One Virginia Tech student killed 32 people with two handguns, after all he killed himself. All American and other country’s people were astonished to hear the news. And a lot of Americans are scared at guns or firearms. However, many other Americans still claim gun right which is opposite to gun control. Moreover, the murder case using guns was not first. A lot of murder cases using guns have happened in the U.S and other countries which allow citizens to have a gun. In spite of these murder cases which have happened continuously, why do governments which allow having a gun make the gun control law stronger? Also there are almost three hundred million in the U.S, and that means at least nine of ten American have one arm. Although many American have a gun and they oppose the gun control, people should follow gun control raw and governments make the gun control law stronger.

Opponents of gun control argue that people kill other people rather than guns kill people. That means people want to kill other people then they can kill with any ways such as a knife or a blunt weapon. However, I don’t agree with their opinion. I think that bearing arms can make more murder cases. Let’s think about some situation which might be terrible imagination. As I mentioned above, most of each American have a gun. If you want to kill someone and you have a gun, knife, and blunt weapon. Which one is the easiest way to kill someone? Probably many people answer that gun is the easiest way. The reason might be that we can shoot a gun with just one finger motion. Actually, in the U.S, the rate of murder cases using guns is more than half of total murder cases. In the United States during 1997, there were 15,289 murders. Of these, 10,369 were committed with firearms. There is other result which is about that gun right is not allowed. Washington D.C. enacted a virtual ban on handguns in 1976. Between 1976 and 1991, Washington D.C.’s homicide rate rose 200%, while the U.S. rate rose 12%. This result shows that if we don’t have a gun, a lot of murder cases using a gun will not only happen, but also just homicide rate will be decrease.

The second argument of opponents is bearing arms can protect oneself and reduce crime rate. However, there is some evidence which prove they are wrong. I think that bearing arms can bearing arms can lead to occur crimes such as robbery. There are some result which bearing arms relates with crime rates. “Survey conducted by Wright and Rossi (1986) and Sheley and Wright (1995) indicate that offender frequently use guns to intimidate and control their victims. Other study which used survey date on 12,000 robbery victims, Cook(1980) found that 55% of the commercial robberies involved guns.” (Stolzenberg, 2000) So this studies shows that guns are used in many criminal.

In my opinion, the reinforcement of gun control can’t get good results immediately because it is impossible to collect all of guns in the U.S. So the government should make gun control stronger step by step. And the government has to prevent or restrict people to buy a new gun especially children or people with a criminal record.

In conclusion, I claim again that people should follow gun control raw and governments make the gun control law stronger because bearing arms can make more murder cases and lead to occur crimes such as robbery. Let’s think about future when gun control enforces stronger. If the gun control law could be stronger, people live peaceful without wondering about crimes of guns. Also a crime rates are not much higher than people have a right to own a gun. However if the gun control law could be weak, a lot of tragic incidents will be happened such as Virginia Tech murder and people couldn’t believe others because of menace from other people’s guns. So I want to suggest opponents of gun control to live in other country where gun right is not allowed such as Korea or Japan. They might realize that it is happy and peaceful to live in those countries.