Breaking News, shots fired at a local high school, multiple casualties reported including the gunman. Immediately, thoughts of Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Sandy Hook appear along with the question, how do we stop these tragedies from happening. The answer for 62% of women is simple, stronger laws regarding the sale of guns (DePrang, 2016). Women are the loudest voice for stronger gun control in the United States, but their voices have not been able to change the minds of U.S. government which is dominated by men. Gun owners also have a loud voice when it comes to gun control, leave it the way it is, but six-in-ten gun owners in the United States are male (62%). Still, about one-in-five women (22%) report that they own a gun. ("How male and female gun owners in the U.S. compare," 2017). While gun control would not stop gun violence, stronger gun control is essential to women because of the guns being used against them, the maternal instinct to protect their children and
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Could a change in gun laws prevent the attack? Let’s start with universal background checks, would not have prevented Loughner from legally purchasing the firearm he used. Why, because he passed a universal background check to purchase the gun used. Many activist fail to realize that anyone who purchases a gun in the U.S. is required to pass a background check. Another law that has been proposed is to restrict high capacity magazines. In the 90’s, the federal government imposed a ban on “Assult Weapons,” included in this ban was a restriction on magazines that held more than ten rounds. This ban was in place from 1994 to 2004; Columbine took place in 1999 (Postel, 2016). In Giffords case, one can argue that had Loughner not had the thirty-one round magazines he would not have been able to shoot so many people, this might be true, or he may have just had to reload more
Could a change in gun laws prevent the attack? Let’s start with universal background checks, would not have prevented Loughner from legally purchasing the firearm he used. Why, because he passed a universal background check to purchase the gun used. Many activist fail to realize that anyone who purchases a gun in the U.S. is required to pass a background check. Another law that has been proposed is to restrict high capacity magazines. In the 90’s, the federal government imposed a ban on “Assult Weapons,” included in this ban was a restriction on magazines that held more than ten rounds. This ban was in place from 1994 to 2004; Columbine took place in 1999 (Postel, 2016). In Giffords case, one can argue that had Loughner not had the thirty-one round magazines he would not have been able to shoot so many people, this might be true, or he may have just had to reload more