“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 violated. » The right of all Americans to bear arms is a right that the Founding Fathers valued as much as the Constitution itself. Gun control laws directly violate this right and therefore should not even be considered. Even though this issue is neglected, gun control advocates argue that to reduce gun violence, gun control laws must be implemented to eliminate gun violence. fire. While this may seem reasonable, the consequences of such laws are ironically counterproductive; they exacerbate the problem instead of solving it. Aside from the fact that the U.S. Constitution guarantees its citizens the right to bear arms, the idea of ​​restricting gun ownership in order to reduce gun violence would ultimately fail given previous control experiments firearms in England and many states. Control states believe that to reduce gun crime (which accounts for a large majority of crimes), firearms should be banned from private property. This takes guns away from the public, removing the instrument to easily commit crimes. Arthur Kellermann and Donald T. Raey, two gun control advocates, conducted their own research on the issue and published their own findings; the statistic 43-1. In this statistic, Kellerman and Raey state that a gun will be used once in a justified shooting, while forty-three other people will be unjustly killed by a gun, either by suicide, by accident, or by a criminal act (Heumer 9). According to these two researchers, owning a gun is not worth it. Private gun ownership saved a life while... middle of paper... guns must remain legal for the private citizen to own. Works Cited Clayton, Forrest B. Deleted History II: Pulverizing Politically Correct Paradigms. Cincinnati: Armistead Publishing, 2005. Print. Huemer, Michael. “Is there a right to own a firearm? » Social theory and practice. 29.2 (April 2003): 297-324. ProQuest. Internet. November 30, 2015.LaPierre, Wayne. Freedom of arms and terrorism. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2003. Print. Lott, Jr. John R. More Gun Less Crime: Understanding Crime Laws and Gun Control. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Print. Moorhouse, JC and Brent Wanner. “Does gun control reduce crime or does crime increase gun control?” Cato Journal, 26(1), (2006): 103-124. ProQuest. Internet. November 30, 2015. United States. Judicial Commission. Right to keep and bear arms. Washington: GPO, 1982. The Web. November 30. 2015.