Introduction

Carrying of weapons is common in most society.  Weapons are typically used during danger and thus signify war and conflict. Furthermore, most people use weapons to commit a crime, as they carry weapons carelessly jeopardising the safety of other people around including children. Again, cases involving carrying weapons are on the rise every year; thus people must be prohibited from taking guns in public for all reasons.

First, the fact that people easily access and carry weapons in public leads to increased crime. For example, when a person carries weapons in public places such as markets, colleges, shopping malls, clubs and they start an argument which escalates into a fight the one taking a gun can draw and kill or injure another. Since most states have no law regulating the use and carry of weapons in public places, criminal cases are on the rise in cities around the world as the guns are used to commit manner of evil activities. According to Feinstein 2008, those who own and carry weapons may engage in xenophobia or racism, and this negatively affects foreigners. Again teenagers who may have access to guns can use them to commit a wide range of crime from robbery to intimidation especially when they are idle. For instance, a teenager whose father owns as the gun may use to fight and overpower others and this may cause crime. Thus, weapons when carried easily trigger violence and  crime in the community. A government should prohibit carrying of firearms in public by all means. Secondly, the act of carrying weapons in public may cause fear among the people as they don’t know who owns a gun.  Majority of gun holders may use the gun to escape lawful arrest from police.

Furthermore, when the public owns and hides weapons, it generally causes insecurity. According to Kolender 1996, private gun holders is the cause of crime incidents where police officers killed, and such an event is a big blow to security and community policing. Racists can use weapons to violently manifest their hatred for other races, for instance between white and blacks. Additionally, the carrying of firearms may lead to some insane people killing people or for robbing violently from the public.

Thirdly, some people argue that carrying weapons ensures personal safety and deterring crime, but this is not right in the sense that the state bestowed the mandate of providing public security and safety. Again when the public carries weapons, it causes anarchy and chaos as the weapons may fall in the hands of crooked elements. (Hemenway, 2015). The public does not need to carry guns for protection; those who reside in cities there exists city police to protect people.  Also, those who take guns for self-protection may turn to crime or triggered by the situation to commit a crime.  Once a person carries weapon chances are that he/she can use the weapon to cause disturbance or commit a crime.  Only the police are the people trained on when, how and the circumstance at which the gun is used, but the public who carry weapons mostly use it to intimidate and cause harm to the public. The public should alert the police incase of insecurity than to carry weapons for defence and self-protection.

In conclusion, carrying a weapon does not make the public safe but increases crime rates. Public carrying of guns may result to killing or injure or intimidation of others on flimsy grounds.  Therefore the carrying weapons in public should be outlawed  and a better solution of insecurity be sought.

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