“States with strong gun control laws have lower gun death rate,”(Kwon and Baack). Throughout the 19th and 20th century, the state and the federal government have enacted thousands of laws regulating sale, purchase, and use of firearms. After the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. in 1972, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms was created to issue licenses, inspect firearms was created to issue licences, inspect firearms declares, and enforce existing federal gun control laws. “Shootings like 1999, Columbine High School massacre, 2007 shootings at Virginia Tech (left 33 people dead), and 2011 Tucson shooting pushed gun control debate further,”(Lee and Stingle).The gun control regulation does not destroy freedom due to public safety and reducing violence.
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“Thirty thousand gun related deaths yearly in the U.S. provides a growing threat to public safety,”(Ballaro and Finley). In Washington, D.C., suffers highest murder rates in the country, people are banned from owning a handgun (Bowman and Newton). More than 116,000 of deaths are suicides (Parrish). Gun violence is used daily, statistics show its extremely high in U.S
Another reason why gun control doesn't destroy freedom is because it reduces crime violence. “In 2010, 606 people, 62 of them children younger than 15, died in accidental shootings,”(Goldberg). Guns are used in violent crimes daily. The rate of gun violence in the U.S. are extremely high.
On the other side, the National Rifle Association (NRA) claims that the Second Amendment guarantees each citizen an absolute right to “bear arms.” Therefore, the NRA fights all attempts to control the manufacture, distribution, and sale of guns. Opposing side views that guns aren't the source of troubling violence, it’s the intentions of gun owners (Bowman and Newton). However, thousands of people use firearms responsibly and
“Thirty thousand gun related deaths yearly in the U.S. provides a growing threat to public safety,”(Ballaro and Finley). In Washington, D.C., suffers highest murder rates in the country, people are banned from owning a handgun (Bowman and Newton). More than 116,000 of deaths are suicides (Parrish). Gun violence is used daily, statistics show its extremely high in U.S
Another reason why gun control doesn't destroy freedom is because it reduces crime violence. “In 2010, 606 people, 62 of them children younger than 15, died in accidental shootings,”(Goldberg). Guns are used in violent crimes daily. The rate of gun violence in the U.S. are extremely high.
On the other side, the National Rifle Association (NRA) claims that the Second Amendment guarantees each citizen an absolute right to “bear arms.” Therefore, the NRA fights all attempts to control the manufacture, distribution, and sale of guns. Opposing side views that guns aren't the source of troubling violence, it’s the intentions of gun owners (Bowman and Newton). However, thousands of people use firearms responsibly and