I used to work in my father’s restaurant as a cashier in Colombia. Working there as a cashier was not an easy job because our restaurant was robbed three times. I was frightened about these incidents because the robbers aimed the gun at me. Even though these incidents took place many years ago, I still remember very clearly and these incidents caused me to became concerned and care about the issue of gun control. I believe that we should have much stricter gun control law because of increasing violence.
Many people died from the gun because gun can be easily purchased. About half the U.S population, especially thirty one states have the right to issue the license to the gun holder. According to the statistics of private firearm ownership in the U.S in 1997, 60-65 million owners owned all firearms and 30-35 million owned handguns. Even though the right to carry guns requires law enforcement agencies to issue handgun permits, the people who apply for it are qualified. According to age, a clean criminal record, and completing a firearm safety course. Therefore, criminal still have a lot of opportunity to get it. The problem is the people who sell the weapon; they don’t care who they are going to deal with. As long as they are earning profit, they would negotiate their customers to sell them weapon whether legal or illegal. This is why our society still has many crimes involve in guns. Especially in the year 1997, people committed about 15,000 murders and in more than 10,000 of these instances, a firearm was used. People committed about 7,927,000 violent crimes; the perpetrator used a firearm about 691,000 of these crimes. Therefore, issuing handgun permits to the people should have much stricter law, this will help our society to decrease more violence. As result, people will live more peacefully.
People under 18 years old are involved in crimes by using guns because of the influence from the society. Even with the enactment of the Brady Bill and Assault Weapons ban in 1993, there still have been school massacres. For example, sixteen year old Luck Woodham stabbed his mother to death and then proceeded to school where he shot nine students and killed two of them in a Mississippi school. In addition, according to the reference from the www.justfact.gun_control, 6,000 children were caught with gun at school in 1997 and 1998. Out of these, thirteen were federally prosecuted. If we don’t have much stricter gun control laws, this will bring more children and teenagers to commit more serious crimes because they are not fully mature and they are also very easily influent by others. Therefore, we should tell the federal government that we shouldn’t allow the people to sell any gun to anyone because children are involved in the massacres. This will destroy their future if they continue to commit serious crimes.
Carrying guns doesn’t mean that it will give you protection. Instead, this will make your life more complicated. When you caught by the police carrying a gun, they would suspect you because they think that you are a murderer or a robber. In special cases, a gun-fire will erupt between you and the police if you are a major suspect. For example, I saw on the news a few weeks ago, a middle aged man who used to carrying an old fashioned gun. He thought that the gun would give him protection. Unfortunately, this turned out to be very grievous ending because of the gun brought to the police officers attention. So, the police officer tried to catch him. However, he did not know why the police wanted to catch him. In this instance, he became very nervous and acted differently. He was holding the gun not knowing what he should do. When the police saw him behave very suspicious, he shot him and he got very seriously hurt. From my point of view about this event, I conclude that carrying guns are also dangerous for oneself.
I know that guns don’t kill people, it is that people use the gun to kill and to harm the innocent. If we have much stricter gun control laws, our society wouldn’t be so dangerous and less innocent people will die form the gun.
Dear Prof.
I am really to let you grade my essay again. The tutor already corrected my grammar mistake. I also changed the content of my positiion paper a lot because of my friend's suggetion, she said that it would be better to use some statistics to support an essay. I know that my essay was terrible. I went to web side and found out some sources about the gun control. Reference from www.justfact.gun_control. Hopefully, this essay is going to be much better.
Thank You!
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Posted at Nov 16/2004 03:18 PM:
Admin: This is a very strong statement of your position, well-supported and well-organized. But you need to do a much better job at finding and fixing the errors in English. Your ideas and points are excellent, but the problems with English grammar and syntax are distracting.
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