Assault Weapons Persuasive Speech
Do people want their children to grow up in an unsafe world? The world that their children will grow up in will not be safe at all. This is because assault weapons can be placed in the hand of mentally unstable people. Their children could be in school one day and a school shooting may happen and their child could possibly die. People could be walking around in a store and somebody with an assault weapon could come in and kill a ton of those people. That can all be changed by putting a ban on assault weapons. Assault weapons should be banned in the United States.
First, while putting this ban on assault weapons imagine about how many lives would be saved and how many people would still be here if assault weapons were already banned. Just to think about the fact that if assault weapons had been banned the Tucson and california party shooting would not have happened and their would be about twenty more lives on this earth(Lupica). School shootings would not have happened like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Mike Lupica, an author of multiple books for teens, agrees with banning assault weapons when he states, “Any fool knows that Lanza couldn't possibly have killed as many children as quickly as he did on the morning …show more content…
Some will say that the pre existing ban of 1994 on assault did not work well and more guns were manufactured during the ban than before(Rhee). A response to that would be that stricter gun laws would be enforced if a ban were to be put on assault weapons. Also guns would be confiscated from people who owned them during the ban. Another response for people who do not want assault weapons banned would be that gun manufacturers would just change certain things on the gun(Rhee). Also, people would say that the gun itself would be banned and if they were to make changes then bullets would not shoot quickly or
First, while putting this ban on assault weapons imagine about how many lives would be saved and how many people would still be here if assault weapons were already banned. Just to think about the fact that if assault weapons had been banned the Tucson and california party shooting would not have happened and their would be about twenty more lives on this earth(Lupica). School shootings would not have happened like the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary school. Mike Lupica, an author of multiple books for teens, agrees with banning assault weapons when he states, “Any fool knows that Lanza couldn't possibly have killed as many children as quickly as he did on the morning …show more content…
Some will say that the pre existing ban of 1994 on assault did not work well and more guns were manufactured during the ban than before(Rhee). A response to that would be that stricter gun laws would be enforced if a ban were to be put on assault weapons. Also guns would be confiscated from people who owned them during the ban. Another response for people who do not want assault weapons banned would be that gun manufacturers would just change certain things on the gun(Rhee). Also, people would say that the gun itself would be banned and if they were to make changes then bullets would not shoot quickly or