This can help me as a counter argument that the simultaneous change from having a gun legally to banning gun ownership completely will not work. We can take Australia as our demonstration that Australia government ban the gun ownership in 1996, yet the result was out of what Australian people expected. It resulted in more illegal guns in the country, which was more dangerous than before the gun ban, since those guns owned before gun ban were registered by the government, whereas guns after gun ban were unregistered. Their government did not have any clue about those guns, for instance model, number and owner. Most importantly, this is not what we want to see in the United States.

After all, what we need basically is no gun on dangerous people's hand. So, this might work.

This list an example that help me show restrictions on gun ownership work.

That's why people who should not have a gun but have it legally.

True. America do have education problem. Sometimes crime rates is an indicator of one's education system. If we want to solve gun problem, gun control would not help us uproot it, but education does. However, gun control is a short term solution to the problem of frequent mass shootings recently, I totally disagree that gun control helps nothing about the problem, but I do agree gun ban is unnecessary.

A solid logos example of proving gun ban does not work the way we hope.

An example of logos. Restriction on gun rights would never work because there are so many alternative ways for people, who try to commit crimes with firearms, to get a gun besides buying it legally. As shown in this article, a 12 gauge shotgun merely cost about $20 in Home Depot.

Thesis: The possession of handgun by civilians should not be banned but proper restrictions should be introduced.

This example showed that criminals can make their own guns to commit crimes, not necessarily buy gun in legal way. If they need guns, gun control could not stop them in a sense that they can make it themselves with cheaper prices, or buy it on black market.

Thesis: The possession of handgun by civilians should not be banned but proper restrictions should be introduced.

Very acute opinion. But the author stated that the relationship between gun control and crime rates is loosely connected. Education and poverty are the key to contribute to crimes committed. Personally, I think it is pretty true in a sense that we all know that education is one of the most influential factors that mold one's life.

Thesis: The possession of handgun by civilians should not be banned but proper restrictions should be introduced.

The author pointed out that either gun and gun ban have no influence on crime rates. Anti-gun might pinpoint statistics about gun murder would have decreased when gun control is implemented. However, the author stated that gun control would only reduce gun murder rate, but not murder rate. Our goal should be reducing crime rates. So it is inappropriate to focus on gun murder rate merely rather than the whole picture.

There is always a reason why things happen. Something bad should have done by the police so that people have this kind of thought.

This idea definitely contributed to the gap between the general public and police officers, which may be the root of the whole matter.

So why don't add regulations on it?

The rationale of strengthened enforcement for police officers has deteriorated.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

The is a creditable source in a sense that Don B. Kates Jr. is a Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He has taught constitutional law and lectured on criminology at Stanford University, Oxford University, Saint Louis University School of Law, and the University of Melbourne. Besides publishing numerous articles on gun control, he is also the editor of "Firearms and Violence: Issue of Public Policy." So, he is an expert in gun control issue. Don B. Kates Jr.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

a person afflicted with paranoia

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

A logical proof. The few sentences showed that current figures about homicide rate are not a good measure of the effectiveness of defensive gun uses. Since there are cases that criminals are injured or that they are scared off are not taken into account. This showed that reasons based on these statistics that anti-gun often try to pull out are not persuasive enough.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

The author quoted a review of American gun control literature done by the University of Massachusetts for the National Institute of Justice, which is also creditable as it is published by the University of Massachusetts. This showed that activists of gun control have a serious misconception that gun owners are demented and blood-thirsty people. Yet, we know that this is incorrect, since possession of guns do help gun owners refrain various crimes in reality.

It is a good quote because it helps me prove that the anti-gun have a strong sense of misconception to people who own guns for defensive purpose. In this regard, a clarification of why people buy guns should be made, so as to achieve a common ground to discuss what possession of guns can be provided.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

This article was about a 22 year-old woman defended herself against armed home invaders by using handgun. And the act of this woman gained praise from her dad. In recent years, cases of gun murder in churches and schools were rising and therefore continuing gain a lot of spotlights from the general public and media. However, incidents that gun owners defend themselves against criminals by using their guns happened constantly, but never draw any attention from the public nor media. This incident reported in this article was just tip of the iceberg. It showed that owning a gun would not cause killing merely, but also saving ones’ life. Nevertheless, media likes to focus on mass shooting. It is understandable, but wouldn’t killing is as important as saving ones’ life? From the length of the article, I think it revealed how media treat these two thing differently. This article only consist of couple sentences, while we could see long and detailed article anywhere if gun murder happens.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

This number showed that how effective it is to let civilian to own handguns. Ironically, the number of criminals killed by civilian each year is 1.5 fold more than that by trained, professional police officers. Not only this number can be used to prove the possession of handguns should not be banned, but it can also showed how possession of handguns can help inhibit crimes.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

This number is so strong in a sense that it is capable to show what can be cased if possession of handguns is banned by using real world example, United Kingdom, which is a developed country that is so similar to the United States on all fronts. In addition, not only does this statistic show the potential consequence of banning ownership of handguns, but it also conveys that there are no relationship between handguns possession and violent crimes.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

This website showed facts and statistics about how people falsely interpret civilian possession of handgun.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

Again, this website used some strong statistics to show how people overestimate the danger of possession of handguns by comparing crime rate worldwide. This showed that there are no direct correlation between crime rate and handgun ownership.

Thesis Statement: Civilian possession of handguns should not be banned or highly restricted.

It is a strong number that showed how people who have a gun legally use their gun and how useful it is to protect themselves. Unlike how some people think, the cases of using a gun for self defense significantly outweigh the accidents taking ones' life.