by Dean Ralph

Created on: October 22, 2009

The Constitutional illegality of banning guns in the U.S. aside, it is also a virtual impossibility. In order for any law banning guns in the United States to be effectively enforced, the right to privacy would need to be removed from the Bill of Rights. There is no way that the Government could take every gun in this Country out of the hands of the citizens.

There are too many registered and non registered guns. In most states, only hand guns need to be registered. By that standard alone there would be no way for the Government to know exactly how many guns are in the hands of the citizens nor how many citizens have them.

Legal issues aside, banning guns would do nothng to stop crime. There are the age old arguments that banning guns would leave only cops and criminals armed and the argument that if everyone had a gun then the crime rates would drop, are arguments that will never be won. There will always be people that are anti guns, just as there will always be pro gun people.

However when arguing crime statistics and gun control, the argument could be made that you are arguing the wrong points. Gun control is not the answer, mind control is the answer.

To a person in the mindset to do harm, the gun is only a weapon, not the cause. A perfect example of this is crime inside of prison walls. In the prison system of the United States, only a select few are allowed to carry guns. Those are the Guards, and only a small portion of them. The Bureau of Justice website lists that there were 220 homicides inside prison walls in 2006, (the latest available information).

Now, considering these acts occurred without guns, inside an environment that is certainly more controlling than that of the average American Citizen, it stands to reason that banning guns will not stop violent crime.

Any person desiring to do harm to one person or several people at one time has many more options available to them than guns. In a controlled environment such as a prison, inmates can, will and have, turned the simplest everyday item into a deadly weapon. The toothbrush, dental floss, pencils and even the infamously deadly, plastic spoon.

Just imagine what a person can turn into a weapon in some place as innocent as a school library. There you have scissors, staplers, pencils, pens, chairs, and of course, the dictionary. Throw in the Science Lab and you have yourself Armageddon just waiting to happen.

Gun control is not the answer. Not only is it not a viable option, the American people will never let it happen. Try to come into a law abiding citizen home and take away his or her guns. That would be an example of violence that could have been avoided.

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