Gun control

Terrorism has taken great importance since 09/11 in US, in fact it has been affected the entire world. Nowadays everybody feel paranoia, anyone feel panic and everybody has become suspect. Moreover since 09/11 the people feelings have changed, some people think that anybody, even the government or armed forces, cannot protect them and them families against terrorist.

This could be one of the reasons why some people have decided to buy a gun for self-defense. But, can people defense themselves against terrorism with a gun?

Nevertheless, there are some other reasons to be in favor of maintaining the Second Amendment of the U.S. According to National Rifle Association – Institute for Legislative Action (NRA-ILA) http://www.nraila.org/, the right to carry guns helps to halt or prevent crime. But the question is whether the crime rates have lowered or on the contrary have increased.

On the other hand, people and groups in favor of gun control, check at http://www.bradycampaign.org/, argue that right to carry firearms is dangerous, increase criminality and the deaths, and increase the number of teens and children died from gun bullets. http://www.millionmommarch.org/

Gun control also is an important issue in the recent presidential campaign, commonly Republicans and conservative people are against gun control, and Democrats and liberal people are in favor of the gun control and in the prevention of gun violence.

I believe that gun control is necessary to prevent crimes, this topic not only affects U.S. also has an effect on my country, Colombia, many of the guns that have been sold in U.S. finally they finish on hands of terrorist groups that are financed by drugs traffic, consequently, thousand of peoples have died.

Moreover, the right to bear fire guns has a big impact over the young population in States. According to Brady Campaign, “In 2005, eight young people aged 19 and under were killed a day by a firearm in the United States. In 2006, 48 per day were non-fatally wounded. The scourge of gun violence frequently attacks the most helpless members of our society - our children”. Nevertheless, more groups within society are affected by firearms, for example women, research made by Brady Campaign, “Guns and domestic violence make a deadly combination. A 2003 study indicated that the presence of a gun in the home made it 6 times more likely that an abused woman would be murdered than other abused women.”

In my opinion, those reasons are enough to change the law, leave away the Second Amendment and avoid too many deaths of innocent people.