According to Kim Krisberg, an advocate for the Nation’s Health, in 2010 more than 105,00 U.S. residents were either killed or injured by a gun. I believe that gun control should be enforced, but shouldn’t totally abolish guns because not everyone will use a gun to harm someone. If we enforce gun control, make it harder to get a gun, and allow the government to help us with gun control, lots of lives could be saved. As mentioned before, in 2010, there were 105,000 U.S. residents that were killed or injured by a gun, and with suicides outnumbered homicides for all age groups between 2000 and 2010 (Krisberg, Kim 1). Mental illness factors into suicide and gun violence too, says Jeffrey Swanson, a medical sociologist at Duke University. Federal
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For example, in Connecticut getting a gun takes a lot of time to happen. First comes an eight-hour safety course. Then picking up an application at a local police department. Review of the application (which includes a background check and fingerprinting) can take up to eight weeks. If approved, the state issues a temporary permit, which the buyer trades in at state police headquarters for a permanent one. Then it’s back to the store for the gun (Rosen, Meghan 10). On the other side, buying a handgun in Missouri is amazingly easy. All they have to do is pass the FBI’s instant background check and then buy the gun. “If a person knew exactly what they wanted,”says John Dawson, the stores chief technical officer, “in theory, complete the transaction in about 15 minutes”. Connecticut didn’t require buyers to get a permit until 1995. Missouri had very strict laws on guns, but repealed them in 2007. Flipping the laws was associated with 15 percent fewer gun suicides in Connecticut and 16 percent more in Missouri, a statistical analysis by Webster and colleagues, published last year in Preventive Medicine, estimated. Similar analyses by Webster in 2014 and 2015 indicated a 40 percent reduction in Connecticut gun homicide numbers, and an 18 percent rise in Missouri (Rosen, Meghan 1). This proves having stricter background checks does change the outcome of gun
For example, in Connecticut getting a gun takes a lot of time to happen. First comes an eight-hour safety course. Then picking up an application at a local police department. Review of the application (which includes a background check and fingerprinting) can take up to eight weeks. If approved, the state issues a temporary permit, which the buyer trades in at state police headquarters for a permanent one. Then it’s back to the store for the gun (Rosen, Meghan 10). On the other side, buying a handgun in Missouri is amazingly easy. All they have to do is pass the FBI’s instant background check and then buy the gun. “If a person knew exactly what they wanted,”says John Dawson, the stores chief technical officer, “in theory, complete the transaction in about 15 minutes”. Connecticut didn’t require buyers to get a permit until 1995. Missouri had very strict laws on guns, but repealed them in 2007. Flipping the laws was associated with 15 percent fewer gun suicides in Connecticut and 16 percent more in Missouri, a statistical analysis by Webster and colleagues, published last year in Preventive Medicine, estimated. Similar analyses by Webster in 2014 and 2015 indicated a 40 percent reduction in Connecticut gun homicide numbers, and an 18 percent rise in Missouri (Rosen, Meghan 1). This proves having stricter background checks does change the outcome of gun