Wrtiting an essay on the benefits of guns

[CowboyTuff]

and could use some pointers or points on which I need to make sure to cover. I'd like to know how you guys think firearms benefit my main sections (hunting, CCW, and I need at least one more main topic)

Thanks in advance,
Tuff

[Irving]

Well, the over all aim is how the presence of firearms benefits society as a whole right? So your main topics of hunting and CCW are really just things that also benefit society, but wouldn't be possible without firearms. Have I got a good understanding of your angle so far?

[esaabye]

How about preserving liberty? I think you could argue that without ready access to firearms by the general population the birth of the United States may never have happened. If it had not been for the USA then the French Revolution may never have happened. It just keeps going from there…

A second example would be the unwillingness of Japan to consider invading the west coast due to the armed population (among many other factors).

[Irving]

Don't present the Japan thing without verifiable facts to back it up though. I see people say that a lot, but I think only one time I've seen a quote from someone in the Japanese military saying something that hints at that being one of the reasons (no offense of course esaabye).

Also, you may want to consider presenting the argument (if you believe it) that you are really writing about the benefits of a force equalizer, and if something more effective than guns came along, you'd support that as well.

[esaabye]

force equalizer

That is really the core of the matter.

[Fentonite]

There's a good article called "The False Promise of Gun Control" by Daniel Polsby. It's too long to post, but it may have some ideas for you. PM me your email, and I'll send it to you.

[BigBear]

"Because the chics dig it"? HAHAHA.

[ChunkyMonkey]

This may not be usable to you, but I helped my nephew with his essay on The myth of gun control = less crime by comparing the Japanese Gun Control (one of the strictest in the world with some of the lowest crime rate too) to US supposedly non existent one.

Upon a quick research, like in US, they have their own psychos and mass murderers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osaka_school_massacre

At 10:15 that morning, 37-year-old former janitor Mamoru Takuma entered the school armed with a kitchen knife and began stabbing numerous school children and teachers. He killed eight children, mostly between the ages of seven and eight, and seriously wounded thirteen other children and two teachers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akihabara_massacre

At 12:33 p.m. JST, a man hit a crowd with a truck, eventually killing three people and injuring two; he then stabbed at least 12 people using a dagger (initially reported as a survival knife)[1] killing four people and injuring eigh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masahiro_Kanagawa

Masahiro Kanagawa (金川 真大 Kanagawa Masahiro?, born 1983) is a Japanese man who went on a stabbing spree in the city of Tsuchiura on March 23, 2008, which left a 27-year-old man dead and seven others wounded

A good reading for us.
http://www.guncite.com/journals/dkjgc.html

Maybe these can help you not necessarily with how guns benefit, but how guns dont kill people. Dumb people do!

[BigBear]

MB888, I would argue that teh low crime rate in Japan has more to do with how they treat criminals caught instead of a no firearm policy. Their traditional of cultural familial honor also plays a huge role.

[cowboykjohnson]

Don't present the Japan thing without verifiable facts to back it up though. I see people say that a lot, but I think only one time I've seen a quote from someone in the Japanese military saying something that hints at that being one of the reasons (no offense of course esaabye).

The man in my signature said that.... see below