Nataliyah Mitchell                                                                            June 6,2014

                                 Gun ownership should be tightly controlled

Do you believe that people without a license should have a gun? If so then that's the wrong idea.
This day in age it is very easy for anyone to get a gun on the street. Every yea more and more civilians die because of violence of young people such as attackers and robbers etc. Why everyday of our life becomes a war ?

Gun control is a very hard topic to talk about. With the federal government currently discussing whether to initiate stronger and more strict laws for owning guns, the number of gun control essays has risen, which makes perfect sense since the topic is fresh on people’s minds with recent shootings and recent incidences where people should not have had access to guns.
With any essay on gun control you can state your opinion in one way or another and then can get to work on crafting how your essay will flow. The violence in today's world, has become ordinary and common. This violence causes a staggering number of deaths and injuries throughout the world. The main weapon used to engage in violence is the gun. That's why I want a strict gun control policy that would nearly abolish guns and make the world a safer place. This policy would make it impossible to buy guns and would only allow hunters to rent guns. By doing this, violence, related to guns, would greatly and rapidly decrease. Over a thousand people have been seriously injured or killed to gun shot wounds in the past five years than ever in history due to gun control problems.  

There is a huge problem and concern with gun control these days. More and more people are not thinking of the seriousness of the injuries caused by guns. People own guns for security issues while others own guns specifically to hurt people. While there are laws of gun control, are the laws actually being followed?. People tend to do what they want and think about themselves and not think about the harm of other people which is sad. Here are graphs to show the percentage of people who own guns...Based on this graph this is estimates of privates firearm ownership in the U.S in 2010-2014

                              

	Households With a Gun	Adults Owning a Gun	Adults Owning a Handgun
Percentage	40-45%	30-34%	17-19%
Number	47-53 million	70-80 million	40-45 million

 

Here you have a chart with the percentage owning a firearm

Category	Percentage Owning a Firearm
Households	42%
Individuals	30%
Male	47%
Female	13%
White	33%
Nonwhite	18%
Republican	41%
Independent	27%
Democrat	23%

Here are a couple of reasons my teacher and I went over together for why gun ownership should be tightly controlled, very easy for anyone to get a gun on the street, Its a threat to public safety, more deaths increase rate, enables people to act stupidity, makes people feel powerful and last but not least we are not responsible enough to carry a gun. In conclusion this is why I believe gun ownership should be tightly controlled.