Essay on Anit Gun Control

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Ashley Lenhard
Ashley Lenhard English Final Draft I am Ashley Marie Lenhard. I was born on September 27, 1983 at Holy Family Hospital. As an only child of Scot and Ronda Lenhard, planning my future came very early in life. My plans are to further my education after High School

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Should there be gun control? Do we the people

need help from the government to set guidelines and

bans out to keep us safe? If we did, would the prices

we pay surmount the desired results. No, gun control

is not a constitutionally sound device nor does it

protect us.

Gun control is not a new tool. In the past century it

was used repeatedly by great rulers/dictators.

However, these rulers used it as a tool to manipulate

and de-power a nations people. Before Hitler took

over and began his quest of racial cleansing, he

banned guns from all citizens. Do you think that the

stories of 2/3 of "euro-jews" being led to death

like sheep would have been the same if they were

armed? I do not. Mass gun control was also used by

Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao Tse Tung to de-arm

and put entire nations to sleep.

However, this could never happen to the United

States. Our founding fathers foresaw this and

enplaned a precautionary amendment into our

constitution. Thomas Jefferson had one of the

most intelligent views on gun control, he said "Laws

that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those

who are neither inclined nor

determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things

worse for

the assaulted and better for the assailants." This is

why we

have a second amendment that gives us the right to

"bear arms."

But have steps to violate this right already

been put

in motion? I think so. Waiting periods on buying

guns are

ridiculous. If someone who raped and beat you was

getting

out of jail, and that person promised to "re-visit"

you, would

you not like to aquire a gun the night you found out

they had

been paroled? I would. Also, should large and

sophisticated assault weapons

be available? Absolutely, yes. Weapons of this

caliber are

close to never used for criminal acts. Also, could

Sharon

Tate have fought off the Manson Family with a small

5 shot

pistol? No, any means we need to protect ourselves

should

be available, encouraged and without a...