Here's a gun control speech written by me, please tell me what you think!

Gun Control

Recently, the United States has had issues as to whether citizens carry guns or not. About 80 million Americans own guns. Some states have started making decisions for individuals to stop the purchasing and use of guns. In the 1980s, though, the NRA (National Rifle Association) increased pressure on Congress to loosen gun control laws and limits. However, in 2010, the Supreme Court stated that Americans in all 50 states have a constitutional right to own firearms for self-defense.

Gun rights are granted by the Second Amendment which reads: “A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed”. The government thinks that it’s fine to own guns on the base of defending the country. However, they cannot agree that individuals should carry weapons to protect themselves. In the Second Amendment it also grants an individual's right to own guns as private property, and that most restrictions on buying and carrying guns block individual rights.

The United States has the highest ranking in the world on gun ownership, and it’s not just only in the U.S. that gun laws have occurred. In 1997, Great Britain banned the ownership of almost all handguns. And in Australia, the Prime Minister commented after a 1996 mass killings in that country that "we took action to limit the availability of guns, and we showed a national resolved that the gun culture that is such a negative in the U.S. would never become a negative in our country."

There are many reasons as to why the government wants to limit the amount of guns in the U.S. Of course we can all remember the sad tragedies that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary and Columbine High School, also the assassinations of Martin Luther King, John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and much more (all of these events caused by civilians). On the other hand, we have heard of the countless stories of people who saved themselves from harm by using a weapon. For example, the woman in Georgia who protected herself and her children by using her gun to stop an intruder. We want to protect our children. Like at Sandy Hook…teaching them to hide under a desk won’t save anyone. The teachers need to protect themselves and the students.

The government should allow citizens to vote on if they want restrictions on gun control or if they want to protect themselves, the people should have the voice.