How Much Gun Control Is Too Much?
In the world that we live in today, gun violence has been a major problem for many years now as well as crime rates. The government needs to have some type of gun control laws to fix the problem in America on the gun violence. America needs some type of gun control to fix the problem without infringing on one’s rights, but also have a strong effect on gun violence in America. Does gun control laws increase crime rates or decrease crime rates, and if so how much gun control is too much?
Here in America, there is a long history of guns, and they played a major role in it as well. The first gun landed in America in the year of 1607, and many different types of wars were won by the use of guns. America winning …show more content…
Gun violence is the same here as it is anywhere else in the world. Weather you live in urban or suburban areas, you will always be variable to gun violence. The are many ways gun violence can happen such as gang violence, accident or suicide it will always be around you. There are more than 100,000 people shot in a year in America. There are 30,000 proven fatal, and over half of them where caused by people below the age of thirty. Since the school shooting of Sandy Hook in Connecticut, there have been more than fifty more that have happened across America. With an American below the age of 25 being killed every hour by a gun, the security of our next generation is failing and is keeping our next generation from truly seeing what they can become in …show more content…
According to The Boston Children’s Hospital, “States with more gun laws have fewer gun related deaths” (Alcindor 1). If this is the case, many more states should have a lot more gun laws to see if the crime rates do go down. The states that have the most gun laws and also do a background check on people before buying a gun also has a decreased number of violence and crimes with guns. Eric Fleeger states, “Our research gives clear evidence that laws have a role in preventing firearms deaths” (Alcindor 1). Gun violence is not only hurting adults, but it is also hurting young teenager and children. In USA Today, Yamiche Alcindor states: “Trayvon, 17, was shot dead in a gated Florida community by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman, who has plead not guilty to a second degree murder charge, is claiming self-defense” (Alcindor
In the world that we live in today, gun violence has been a major problem for many years now as well as crime rates. The government needs to have some type of gun control laws to fix the problem in America on the gun violence. America needs some type of gun control to fix the problem without infringing on one’s rights, but also have a strong effect on gun violence in America. Does gun control laws increase crime rates or decrease crime rates, and if so how much gun control is too much?
Here in America, there is a long history of guns, and they played a major role in it as well. The first gun landed in America in the year of 1607, and many different types of wars were won by the use of guns. America winning …show more content…
Gun violence is the same here as it is anywhere else in the world. Weather you live in urban or suburban areas, you will always be variable to gun violence. The are many ways gun violence can happen such as gang violence, accident or suicide it will always be around you. There are more than 100,000 people shot in a year in America. There are 30,000 proven fatal, and over half of them where caused by people below the age of thirty. Since the school shooting of Sandy Hook in Connecticut, there have been more than fifty more that have happened across America. With an American below the age of 25 being killed every hour by a gun, the security of our next generation is failing and is keeping our next generation from truly seeing what they can become in …show more content…
According to The Boston Children’s Hospital, “States with more gun laws have fewer gun related deaths” (Alcindor 1). If this is the case, many more states should have a lot more gun laws to see if the crime rates do go down. The states that have the most gun laws and also do a background check on people before buying a gun also has a decreased number of violence and crimes with guns. Eric Fleeger states, “Our research gives clear evidence that laws have a role in preventing firearms deaths” (Alcindor 1). Gun violence is not only hurting adults, but it is also hurting young teenager and children. In USA Today, Yamiche Alcindor states: “Trayvon, 17, was shot dead in a gated Florida community by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer. Zimmerman, who has plead not guilty to a second degree murder charge, is claiming self-defense” (Alcindor