Banning Guns In America

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How many more people have to die before America bans guns? More than 30,000 people die from being shot in a year in America. Who will be next? When will it happen? Where will it happen? Will one of our loved ones have to die before we start to realize how dangerous these weapons are? More than 30,000 died, but more than 40,000 people were affected. Families & friends were also hurt, but worse of all, so are their lives. They have to live with the burden of knowing that their home, the USA, chose not only to not save these people's innocent lives, but to also affect the ones close to them. The United States of America chose to neglect the what has put right in front of them, the fact that guns are very dangerous.

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