According to the statistical data from CNN, the US has 88.8 guns per 100 people, or about 270.000.000 guns, which means the highest total in the world. 22% of Americans own more than one gun. American’s pervasive gun culture is a part from its colonial history, revolutionary roots, and frontier expansion. The most important thing is the second amendment of the constitution, which addresses the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia Being necessary to the security of a free states, the right of the people jeep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” Gun rights and gun control groups alike have been lobbying congress for decades to craft legislation, which creates stricter gun
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Some say that the republicans own the anti gun control issue, as the democrats own pro gun control. They argue that there is a need for more sticker laws and regulations on who own guns. In the article “Donald Trump gun’s madness” by Jay Perini on CNN, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Donald Trump said at a campaign stop in Tennessee, after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon 2 weeks ago that teachers should have been armed and waiting. He complained that this college was “a gun-free zone” and if we had a couple teachers with guns in that room, we could have stopped the culprit. That was totally justified. Because all of the school shootings in the last 10 years were caused by the white people, not Muslims, terrorists or something else. There are some other people from citizen groups and arms manufacturers who are trying to protect what they view as the right to own and bear firearms for self-defense and recreational activities. Those people who supports gun may believe that banning or putting restrictions on guns would be
Some say that the republicans own the anti gun control issue, as the democrats own pro gun control. They argue that there is a need for more sticker laws and regulations on who own guns. In the article “Donald Trump gun’s madness” by Jay Perini on CNN, the presidential candidate of the Republican Party, Donald Trump said at a campaign stop in Tennessee, after the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon 2 weeks ago that teachers should have been armed and waiting. He complained that this college was “a gun-free zone” and if we had a couple teachers with guns in that room, we could have stopped the culprit. That was totally justified. Because all of the school shootings in the last 10 years were caused by the white people, not Muslims, terrorists or something else. There are some other people from citizen groups and arms manufacturers who are trying to protect what they view as the right to own and bear firearms for self-defense and recreational activities. Those people who supports gun may believe that banning or putting restrictions on guns would be