Topic > The guns aren't that bad - 563

Have you ever gone hunting or shooting? Have you seen an Olympic sport with shooting? He thinks he will lose it because people have the wrong idea about guns. Some people think that guns are “all bad.” They also think that guns are the cause of death, but that's not the case. Firearms serve seven different good purposes and should not be judged only negatively, showing that banning guns would also take away the good qualities that guns have to offer. The Second Amendment to the Constitution gives civilians the right to bear arms. Banning guns takes guns away from innocent people. In America, approximately 270 million firearms are owned by civilians. A 1994 survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans only use guns to scare off intruders who are breaking into their homes. This happens approximately 498,000 times per year. In the same survey, civilians said that if they didn't have a weapon someone would be killed. It is incorrect to think that firearms are the cause of most deaths. The most common cause of death is obesity, while the second most common is smo....