A Rebuttal to 40 Reasons to Ban Guns
Josephine Martell
University of Phoenix
December 23, 2013

Introduction
A Rebuttal to 40 Reasons to Ban Guns
40 Reasons to Ban guns were arguments made by liberal lawmakers. When reading this argument I completely disagree on some points. Banning guns does not prevent people in getting them. There is always a way where criminals will get them and use it. I support banning weapons such as assault rifles. We should allow people to defend them using a handgun legally.

A Rebuttal to Gun Control
Guns are not always a danger to society. Guns can be useful and can actually be helpful in self-defense situations.
Kleck’s (2011) article shows us just that:
“There is strong empirical evidence showing that the use of guns for self- protection is both frequent and effective. Victims who use guns for defense in crime incidents are less likely to be injured or lose property than otherwise similar victims who either do nothing to resist or adopt other self- protection strategies.”
This article made me think more about what guns can do to help us and not just what they could do to hurt us.
This just shows us that maybe we might want to have more gun laws like the state of Arizona. Arizona is arguably one of the most lenient states when it comes to guns and possessing them. Maybe this is what we need in this country. If more people were to possess a gun legally crime rate could go down. Most people would feel a bit safer if they were able to have a gun. I feel that if more people had guns then there would be less crime because someone willing to mug or shoot another person would be less likely to due to the victim having a gun. These are the types of things to think about when discussing gun control. Sometimes the most obvious thing to do is not always the right thing to do.
In our country there have been many mass killings. There has been the shooting in Colombine High School in 1999, Virginia Tech in 2007, Supermarket parking lot Casas Adobes, Arizona in 2011 and the most recent Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. In the Arizona shooting, the student who was the shooter also shot US Representative Gabrielle Giffords.
Mass killings are going to happen with or without gun control laws, but there can be ways to limit them. When the mass killings occur, no one has a gun besides the shooter, having more people possessing guns, the shooter can be taken down without any more people getting shot or killed. In the case of the college student in Arizona, if someone had a gun while that was going on, they could have saved numerous lives. The shooter would have been taken down before anyone else was hurt or murdered. He would not have had the time to aim at his targets or reload when his clip was empty if another person was shooting back at him. He would have probably fled the scene and never even shot anyone. This would have saved many innocent people from being hurt. In these types of killings, most of the injured are innocent. The shooter just shoots at its target with no worry about the others that may be hit. Some people who get shot during mass killings are just at the wrong place at the wrong time. By limiting gun control, we can save the innocent bystanders who get shot for no reason at all.
According to Liberal Lawmakers (1991-present) the more helpless you are the safer you are from criminals. This statement is false. It may be obvious to protect people by banning guns in areas. But it leaves law abiding citizen as sitting ducks. According to Lott (2012) every public shooting since at least 1950 in the Unites States in which more than three people have been killed has taken place where citizens are not allowed to carry guns.
In conclusion, banning guns will only hurt the innocent and the law abiding citizens. We as Americans According to the Bill Of Rights have the right to bear arms, banning guns will take the right away from citizens.

References
Independence Hall Association. (1995-2013). Bill of Rights and Later Amendments. Retrieved from http://www.ushistory.org/documents/amendments.htm
Kleck, G. (2011). Mass Killings Aren't the Real Gun Problem. Retrieved from http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052748703959104576081910062180664
Liberal Lawmakers. (1991-present). 40 Reasons to Ban Guns. Retrieved from http://www.rulen.com/gunban/
Lott, J. (2012). Gun Restrictions Leave People Vulnerable and Helpless. Retrieved from http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/did-the-sandy-hook-shooting-prove-the-need-for-more-gun-control/gun-restrictions-leave-people-vulnerable-and-helpless