Gun Control

I have been hearing so much about gun control that its beginning to become obnoxious. First of all countries that use gun control have less gun deaths than countries that do not. So many would say that it is proven gun control works. I have to agree. I do not have any idea what conservatives are thinking when they say arming everyone would decrease crime/gun deaths. People get in fights all the time, humans act irrational, we make mistakes, so why would we give all of them a gun?

Unfortunately where we are at in the U.S. we could not completely get rid of guns. There are just too many of them. So what we have accomplished in my opinion is a victory. However we will always have those people who assume that the second amendment only says the right to bear arms. Too often pro gun advocates do not know the full text of the second amendment. the full text is "A well regulated milita, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to bear arms, shall not be infringed". Notice the words well regulated and necessary for the security of a free state. The second amendment does not give people the right to bear arms at all, yet people still interpret it to be that way.

Now using this argument I can already hear pro gun people say "Dirty liberal" or "Crazy progressive". Well they can say these and try to insult me any way they want but the facts are the facts. Gun control is the most affective way to decrease attacks using firearms. My favorite quote to prove such a fact is from a tv show called "The West Wing". In this there is a debate between a senator and one of the presidents assistants over gun control. Here is the text. "But I do know that if you combine the populations of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and Australia, you've got a population roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year and they had 112. Do you think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because those guys have gun control laws?"