Have you ever hunted or shot? Have you seen an Olympic sport with shooting? Consider losing that because people have the wrong idea about guns. Some people think guns are “all bad.” They also think that guns are the cause of all deaths, but that is not the case. Guns serve seven different positive purposes and should not be judged solely negatively, proving that banning guns would also take away the good qualities that guns have to offer. In the Second Amendment to the Constitution, it gives civilians the right to bear arms. Banning guns takes guns away from innocent people. In the United States, approximately 270 million firearms are owned by civilians. A 1994 survey by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that Americans use guns only to scare away intruders who break into their homes. This happens about 498,000 times a year. In the same survey, civilians said that if they had not had a weapon, someone would have been killed. It is wrong to think that guns are the cause of most deaths. The most common mode of death is obesity and the second most common is smo...