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5 Reasons Why Gun Advocates Should Support Refugees

Let’s apply the logic of gun advocates to the refugee crisis.

 Natasha Muhametzyanova
Apr 18, 2016
West Liberty University
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5 Reasons Why Gun Advocates Should Support Refugees
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For a long time, there have been two major debates in the media: gun rights and the refugee crisis. Surprisingly, the majority of the states supporting gun rights refused to accept refugees. It is surprising because pro-gun logic, if applied to refugee crisis, would give a completely different result. So let's take a look.

1. Look at the countries which have gun control. Crime still happens there.

Watch daily news. There are places refugees never even heard about, but crime happens there.

2. Those who want to commit a crime will find a way to get guns.

So those who want to get through the border just to commit a crime do not need to go through refugee migration process.

3. I am responsible for the decision to have or not to have a gun. Nobody should tell me how to live my life!

You just told thousands of people how to live their lives. Do you think your life is more special?

4. I just want to feel safe.

I get that. We all want to feel safe. It is one of our basic psychological needs. But guess what, there are people out there who haven’t felt safe in months. So can we go with your logic a little further than your own safety?

5. We already have a lot of guns in people’s hands. It doesn’t make sense to blame guns for crimes.

There are already a lot of refugees from Middle East, Southeast Asia and Africa living in the US. It does not make sense to blame people for terrorists’ crimes.

One last question to you. If personal guns bring you more safety than police, FBI and CIA all together, then why worry about refugees coming to the United States? Shouldn’t your gun keep you safe?

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