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Having A GunVery often in life I would find myself strongly disagreeing and upholdingthe totally opposite point of view about(predicate) the actions and behavior of those,whose deeds seemed to me rather disadvantageous and harmful to the entirecommunity or society. These kind of actions were mostly coming from governmentauthorities, and quite obviously, there was not much that could have been donein order to refute or override them. Therefore, not only once, the idea ofhaving adequate power and authority to banning these kind of pernicious practices,would appeal to me.For the purpose of decreasing the crime rate, that was the top concern ofthe Ukrainian citizen, in 1994, some misguided politicians in government followthe legislation repealing the previous amendment and thus, abolishing theconstitutional properly to own the handguns. Banning the sale of firearms seems tome a most malicious and reckless deed, that instead of safeguarding andprotecting, endangers more the entire so ciety.     The governing body justified this act by saying that it would protect theinnocent citizens. But it failed to even entertain the notion that the enactmentof this law would come to protect the right of those who violate the rights ofothers. It has never occurred to authorities that vicious criminals, in spite ofthis legislation, will still manage somehow to get the firearms.     Innocent mess, however, will suffer, because they will be less likelyto obtain handguns in order to protect themselves and their families. Therefore,it would not be hard to imagine the carnage of the citizens, should there not be any guns in their homes. The criminals would walk in at any time they desired,they would take whatever they wanted, rape whom they wanted, and shoot whoeverwould resist.     The Government defended the enactment of this law by declaring that multitude could not be secure as long as there would be handguns around they couldnot be secure when three million people in the country had shotguns stuck in theglove compartment of their cars, bedside drawers, pockets and kitchen cabinets.But could they be secure if some criminal would try to take away somebodys carunder the threat, plume and rape somebody in the street or try to burglarizesomebodys home, knowing that they would not have any guns to protectthemselves? The prompt and correct set is "NO".     The government was established to insure that none of our rights wouldbe violated or taken away. It seems to me that the government, by infringing theright of people to keep and bear arms, has failed to come through its citizens with