Everyone should keep a gun in the home for self-protection.

Lee, Dongseong ( as known as Scott )

Topic : Everyone should keep a gun in the home for self-protection

Is it good to keep a gun in the home for self-protection? My answer is ‘No’. I think the gun makes a society, which allows people to own a gun, more dangerous and scared. In other words, it seems the fear produces bigger fear. Actually, I don’t know what own a gun, but I can just imagine it. For me to own a gun, it seems I get the power. I can protect myself from others. Nobody can hurt me. But if someone also could own a gun, I would be more scared than when I had no gun, because I would be dead easily.
I've seen a movie 'BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE(2002)' before. It was a documentary movie about the gun violence in U.S. Its director Michael Moore, who is also a well-known director of Fahrenheit 9/11, showed us the irony of gun possession. In U.S, anyone can buy a gun easily, even at Wal-Mart. However, even though they own a gun, they don’t feel safe. On the contrary, Canadian, who can’t own a gun, feel safer than American.
I had searched some research and I found out some interesting facts. Followed by research, every day, more than 80 Americans die from gun violence. (Coalition to Stop Gun Violence). And the rate of firearm deaths among kids under age 15 is almost 12 times higher in the United States than in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention). And then American kids are 16 times more likely to be murdered with a gun, 11 times more likely to commit suicide with a gun, and nine times more likely to die from a firearm accident than children in 25 other industrialized countries combined. (Centers for Disease Control).
As will be seen above, the gun doesn’t make you safe. Just imagine you’re under the fear of gun violence.