Government Should Enforce Gun Control Laws

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Do you feel safe today with all the gun violence going on in the world? Innocent people are getting shot by police. Mass murders in public places. Police getting killed for doing their job. For example, what happen on December 14, 2012 when 26 innocent people died at a school. At San Bernardino shooting 14, people were killed and 22 seriously injured. It seems today every time you turn on the tv there is something to do with gun violence. With that in mind, I believe the government should enforce gun control laws.
First the government should banned high capacity magazines because too often it turn murders to mass murders. A high capacity magazine is a gun that is able to hold more than the normal amount of ammunition. Why do we want to give

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