Gun control pt1

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Gun control is an oft debated topic, and a very controversial one. The two sides of the battle about guns are both passionate about what they believe. So all of America knows about gun control, but not all of America likes it. The two main groups that are featured in this battle that rages around the 50 states are pro gun advocates and anti gun activists.
There are an estimated 200 million privately owned guns in the United States according to the FBI. Since there are so many guns, firearms’ manufacturers propose that their industry not only creates jobs, but that it “generates 20 billion dollars in economic activity per year". Also, the National Center for Policy Analysis notes that armed citizens save the U.S. 90 million to 38.8 billion dollars per year preventing crimes. In the United States a survey taken in 1990 found that even though most Americans wanted more gun control, they also thought that if more firearms’ laws went into effect, crime would stay the same or increase.
So why the rush to lock up guns if they save money, promote business and do prevent crime?
The history of gun control must begin with the history of guns themselves. In 1631, all “able-bodied” men of the Massachusetts Bay colony were required to join the colony’s militia and provide their own guns. Men of this era had guns because earlier in the 1600’s, colonial law entailed that every household was to have at least one gun. The government was so insistent that houses have guns that if the family was too poor to buy a gun, the government would loan them a gun until the price could be paid back. Officers even searched the homes periodically to ensure that the law was being followed. Yet murder was rare, and the few murders that happened did not involve guns. Later in 1981, in Kennesaw Georgia, the law dictated that people had to have a gun. Seven years later, burglaries were down from eleven per one thousand houses to two point six per one thousand. That is a four hundred percent decrease.
In 1840 however, murder went up because gun ownership was not required, but by the start of the Civil War, guns were once again being bought and kept in homes. After the Civil War, Union soldiers brought their guns home, Confederates were required to turn their rifles in. They were, however, allowed by U.S. Grant to keep their handguns, as Grant did not want to humiliate them. The war determined, among many other things, the future of guns in America. The war had increased the deadliness of the typical gun used, particularity because of the work of Samuel Colt.