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Essay / Persuasive Essay on the Second Amendment - 991
Detroit and Chicago have some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the United States. Yet both cities have high crime and homicide rates. Criminals benefit from overly strict gun control laws because when citizens are unarmed, it becomes much easier to commit crimes without immediate punishment. Gun control hurts Americans. They don't make our country safer or better. The Founding Fathers introduced the Second Amendment into our Constitution for good reason. It wasn't meant to be interpreted any other way. They put it in our founding documents as a guarantee, to ensure that if everything else in our country goes to hell, we will still have our weapons to take it all back. They wanted the American people to come here for the American dream, to be safe and for freedom; and that's why the second amendment is so